Since the RIT is the weapon of choice many do not pay attention to the offset that is being tuned and simply walk up and down a bit picking out the next caller that falls in THEIR passband.
Carl KM1H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Smith" <g...@ka1j.com> To: <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:27 AM Subject: Re: Topband: My take on ARRL 160 > I'm using a K3 with pretty much all the bells & whistles sans FM & 2 > meters. It's calibrated "perfectly" with WWV and I know it's on > frequency that's displayed. I was S&P for all but the early daylight > hours when I called CQ to add a few extra Q's from the other S&Ps out > there. > > When I'm in a CW contest and the band is crowded, I run my digital > filter at 50 Hz with a 250 Hz crystal filter engaged so I'm pretty > much dead on someone's transmit frequency and I was amazed how many > people are listening off their frequency during the contest. They > were calling CQ and I'd get no reply but still hear them answering > another station. I'd widen the skirt and hear them work someone say > 300Hz +/- up or down from their transmit freq. I'd go split & match > their Rx freq and bang, there was the Q. I'd leave split & go back to > 50 Hz and most people were Tx & Rx on the same freq but some people, > quite a few really, definitely aren't listening to their transmit > freq. > > Gary > KA1J > > >> I cannot emphasize enough the importance of getting on frequency. >> Make sure you can zero beat and get EXACTLY on frequency of the >> station you are calling. It is amazing to me how many people cannot >> seem to do that. I always have callers 200 and even 300 Hz high and >> low, and then they wonder why I don't hear them. I don't hear them >> because 200 to 300 Hz away is someone else's run frequency and I am >> forced to use a 200 Hz filter with very steep skirts. That is how >> crowded the band is during this contest. It does no good for me to >> tune for off frequency callers. A distant caller who is S5 but >> insists on calling under another running station who is S9+20 or >> more is not likely to be heard. At least not by me! >> >> Those are my comments. I'll go back to being silent now. >> >> 73, >> Paul N1BUG >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK >> > > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2102/4057 - Release Date: 12/04/11 > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK