[UK-CONTEST] Data contest - apologies

Peter Lock doc.lock at tesco.net
Tue Mar 6 14:30:39 PST 2012


" As I say, it all seems to work OK for individual QSOs - but in the contest
environment, it's poor."

Yep, that's PSK in contesting...;-) - not a good contest mode, but that is
just my opinion and has been done to the death on this forum previously

I saw your signal on the waterfall before the contest but didn't call then
as I was just quickly going across the spectrum, but it certainly seemed as
good as any others on the band.  I got quite a good run going and stuck to
my run frequency for the first 45 minutes then hopped over to RTTY but then
band conditions went to pot; I wasn't getting many Qs then, so went back to
PSK but by then you had gone.  You may already be doing this and please
don't take offence if you are, but on the MMVARI waterfall in N1MM there are
notch filters available by right clicking on the waterfall which you can
bring in very close to your signal and which keep out a lot of QRM from very
close neighbours - they are VERY good - get one either side and readability
of the incoming signal improves a lot, but your partner does have to net
well onto yours.

Peter
M0RYB



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