Re: Fw: OT [Elecraft] Sweepstakes
The big secret to increasing your score in contests is two-fold. Stay in the chair and call CQ. Your total and rates will improve dramatically. I, like many who have wrote before, compete with myself to see if I can improve. You are your best competition. BTW - It's not really a secret. :) At 11/4/2007 06:46 PM, Ken Kopp wrote: Bob, Let's look at it in perspective ANY contester in ANY contest will always be behind unless he/she's the winner. This is an obvious fact. I've been a high-scoring SS participant in the past, with a Northwest Division first place one year, made a number of DX-pedition trips and a was the 2nd place in the world in an ARRL CW DX contest. Simply put, contest with yourself and ignore the rest of the pack. You may be surprised at how well you do. You're an hour into the contest and you hear someone with 100 Q's. Wow, how's he doing so well! Check his count 24 hours later ... you may be surprised. I always have the print-out from the previous contest at hand and check it from time-to- time to see how I'm doing. There are many tiny little things about winning contests that one does't learn overnight and too much to go into here. Sending N instead of 9 is an example ... 5NN. Portions of seconds add up to minutes and more Q's. 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
OT: [Elecraft] Sweepstakes
Is there anything in the rules that wouldn't allow one to start with a high serial number, like 800 instead of 1 :-) ??? Joe-aa4nn wrote: In my early days of contesting I would shy away from contests having a serial number in the exchange. It was for me a big time thing to fall behind in the numbers, really embarrassing. But no more. As I entered Sweepstakes early Sunday afternoon I found it interesting that ops would often ask for a repeat to confirm my unexpected low serial number. -- Blog: http://thek3ngreport.blogspot.com/ ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Fw: OT [Elecraft] Sweepstakes
Bob, Let's look at it in perspective ANY contester in ANY contest will always be behind unless he/she's the winner. This is an obvious fact. I've been a high-scoring SS participant in the past, with a Northwest Division first place one year, made a number of DX-pedition trips and a was the 2nd place in the world in an ARRL CW DX contest. Simply put, contest with yourself and ignore the rest of the pack. You may be surprised at how well you do. You're an hour into the contest and you hear someone with 100 Q's. Wow, how's he doing so well! Check his count 24 hours later ... you may be surprised. I always have the print-out from the previous contest at hand and check it from time-to- time to see how I'm doing. There are many tiny little things about winning contests that one does't learn overnight and too much to go into here. Sending N instead of 9 is an example ... 5NN. Portions of seconds add up to minutes and more Q's. 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Fw: OT [Elecraft] Sweepstakes
Bob, Let's look at it in perspective ANY contester in ANY contest will always be behind unless he/she's the winner. This is an obvious fact. I've been a high-scoring SS participant in the past, with a Northwest Division first place one year, made a number of DX-pedition trips and a was the 2nd place in the world in an ARRL CW DX contest. Simply put, contest with yourself and ignore the rest of the pack. You may be surprised at how well you do. You're an hour into the contest and you hear someone with 100 Q's. Wow, how's he doing so well! Check his count 24 hours later ... you may be surprised. I always have the print-out from the previous contest at hand and check it from time-to- time to see how I'm doing. There are many tiny little things about winning contests that one does't learn overnight and too much to go into here. Sending N instead of 9 is an example ... 5NN. Portions of seconds add up to minutes and more Q's. 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
