[VHFcontesting] how to improve FD score

[Bryan - k0emt]

I know I am preaching to the choir hear, but maybe you can bring this 
observation back to your club.

Propagation at our site sucked.  There were a number of times when I could 
hear someone right at the noise floor so I would call with CW.  A time or 
two I even heard them get the call sign.  However, they wouldn't or 
couldn't switch to CW and we couldn't complete the circuit on phone.  (Yes, 
we tried.)

I think some stations forgot or didn't know two important things:
cross mode Q's don't count for FD.
you can work stations multiple times if you use a different mode each time.

So, when conditions are poor as they were last weekend;
use CW and digital modes to eek out as many as possible,
work the strong stations again with the other modes.

Now, I'm off for the weekend!

73,

Bryan - k0emt
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