On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:31:20 -0800, you wrote: Below...
>Jim Miller wrote: >> Listening to K5D last night made it obvious to me (I'm slow...) the >> benefit of a sub-receiver. The exchanges that occur by the pursuers >> are impossible to find by switching back and forth between pursued and >> pursuer frequencies. I'm assuming that the pursued will take the next >> call somewhere near the last one, maybe a bad assumption. > >Some DX operators (the ones I like) go through a pileup in one direction, >moving up or >down a discrete amount each time. Then they either 'snap back' to the other >end of the >pileup, or tune back the way they came. This is the best case, because if you >are thinking >you can predict where to call accurately -- and only a small percentage of >callers are >thinking! > >Others hop around between two general areas. You can imagine them flipping >back and forth >each time. If you detect this, it can be helpful. > >Some operators pretty much listen in one spot, plus or minus a few hundred Hz. >for a long >time. Pretty soon everyone learns where this is! > >Sometimes a guy will just randomly pick someone to answer with no discernible >pattern. >This can be frustrating. > >You really do need two receivers to spot the pattern. It can be hard when the >DX is >working stations that you can't hear. > >I know that I have spent long periods in pileups without results until I get >the pattern. >Then -- blam, one shot. Exactly! 73, Tom, N5GE K3 806 XV144 XV432 http://www.n5ge.com http://www.swotrc.net ______________________________________________________________ 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
