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Who you hear and who can hear you
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Carl Clawson
Good going, Scott. You turned in a more than respectable score for QRP! I’ve done a few QRP efforts myself, but only about half the rate that you did. And I do a bit of QRP DXing just for something to do while waiting for new ones to show up on the air. You make some good points. My unsolicited advice for QRPers: 1. Always make the call. You miss 100% of the Q’s that you don’t try for. If you miss, pop them into your band map or 2nd VFO and come back later. Lots of multipliers are easy in the last hours after all the loud guys have worked them. 2. Hardly anything beats busting a howling pileup with 5 watts. It’s all about timing, pitch (use your XIT), and code speed. Vary them all. 73 and thanks for listening, Carl WS7L On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 10:12 PM Scott Rosenfeld <ars.n7ji@...> wrote:
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Scott Rosenfeld
True that. I do that frequently but it doesn’t help in a CW contest very much. On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 07:43 Kevin k5vp <darthfadar@...> wrote:
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Kevin k5vp
If it's current condx & a digital mode, including CW, RTTY & the FT modes, you can see who 'sees' you with pskreporter. While it doesn't show condx 'on the other side', it does show who is receiving a specific station. Best regards, Kevin Potter k5vp On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 10:12 PM Scott Rosenfeld <ars.n7ji@...> wrote:
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Scott Rosenfeld
A follow-up about hearing more than you can work. I was running 5 watts with wire antennas. It’s always amazing to see who can hear me and who can’t because it’s impossible to know what the operating conditions are on the other end. I did hear 3B8M in zone 39 on 20 meters over the pole around noon PST. Tried for about 10 minutes and no reply. I also heard JW7QIA in zone 40 on 15 meters. No reply after 10 minutes there either. No surprise. Lots of people calling. I did, at the end, work 9M6NA on 10 meters, zone 28. Scott N7JI -- Scott N7JI |
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