CW is also the only way to go for pedestrian mobile FD, which I did for a couple of hours while hiking on Saturday. Even with a 4' whip and 5 watts I was working almost every station I called. I stopped long enough to log each QSO so my printing would be legible.
Of course this is not the way to hold and run a frequency. Wayne N6KR > On Jun 28, 2023, at 1:14 PM, Robert Strickland via Elecraft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jim... > > I gave up on all SSB contesting long ago. To my ears and preferences, it's > just a pile of gibberish with maybe one very strong/clear signal every > 10-20Kc. Not worth it. CW is the only way to contest IMHO. While I've never > operated QRP, I suspect that I'm headed in that direction, also. > > ...robert KE2WY > > On 6/25/2023 19:37, Jim Brown wrote: >> On 6/25/2023 7:19 AM, Al Lorona wrote: >>> I went to CW after this and found the operating to be a lot better. >> I gave up on SSB on FD more than ten years ago. Instead, have been doing FD >> QRP with W6GJB and W6JTI. There are still guys who haven't been on the air >> in the year between, and some long pauses after a QSO, but that's the >> exception. >> 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
