ARRL160 is the true test of just how close folks can get in the US contests ;o)
Sounds like you had similar experiences, I had been running about an hour when an EU slide within 300 Hz of me and tried to start something, I slide down caught the multiplier, slide back up and kept running... well until 3V3S started CQ right on top of me (less than 100Hz), maybe they were running a K3 too, slide up and worked them, but decided the fight wouldn't work out in my favor so went S&P, picked up 8 new multipliers inside of 20 minutes. Losing a run freq isn't always bad ;o) I did run tighter than normal, 400Hz and lower. 20 was packed to around 14.145 Sunday morning, so very narrow was worth it. 73, Julius n2wn Guy, K2AV wrote: > > Are you recommending in a CW contest that one not engage in running if > one cannot find a space with an open kHz above and an open kHz below? > :>) > > Common contest practice in recent decades is 500 kHz between signals > regardless of folks without filters. And that seems to be squeezing > down to 400 and narrower, which some folks derisively have called the > K3 effect. > > Last weekend I spent nearly 3 hours 350 Hz below HG1-, who had bad > clicks, and managed it with the K3's extraordinary DSP NB. He parked > up 350 after I had been running on the frequency for nearly an hour. I > didn't move and made many Q's on the frequency with him up there. I'm > sure he thought I would go away, and I probably didn't bother him at > all because my K3's transmitted signal is devoid of key clicks. > > For casual operation I agree with you, but in the contests, it's just > p**ing in the wind. > > 73, Guy. > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote: >> Even with a lesser receiver, I allow plenty of frequency spacing between >> myself and another station on CW, recognizing that the other station may >> not >> have superb selectivity. Around the CW QRP frequencies, I often allow a >> full >> kHz and several hundred Hz on other frequencies. >> >> When getting ready to transmit on new frequency I always open up the >> selectivity before sending "QRL?" so I can hear if anyone nearby responds >> who I would never hear with less selectivity. Besides, as others >> observed, >> other stations are often not quite on frequency and the CQing station >> using >> narrow selectivity may just keep heating the aether while others are >> trying >> to respond just outside of his bandpass. >> >> Ron AC7AC >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ----- Julius Fazekas N2WN Tennessee Contest Group http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html Tennessee QSO Party http://www.tnqp.org/ Elecraft K2/100 #4455 Elecraft K3/100 #366 Elecraft K3 #1875 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-in-the-CQWW-contest-tp4088913p4101674.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
