There has been a thread on another list mentioning folks inability to zero beat the station they were calling. I think it may be more a case of this narrow filters being used. I managed to get a number of contacts that would not respond to my zero beating their cq's. After a couple of tries I would then call about 100-150hz up or down from their frequencies. It's gotten to be a habit for me try that technique almost all the time, if I really want to make the contact.
Then again with 100w out the K3 and 6w ERP off the Hi-Q 6/160 @ 20'. you do what you can to trick your way into completing the Q. ;-) GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 2/2/2011 12:27 PM, bruce whitney wrote: > K8OT I guess I will break my code of silence on this issue. I haven't really > been at this too long - but you might want to keep in mind that with the > extreme conditions of this contest I was running my receive BW down as low as > 20 to 100 HZ many times. I would try and widen it up - just to get clobbered > and not be able to hear anything but extremely strong signals. I also would > wiggle my RIT around a bit - but it is certainly conceivable that somebody > responding to a CQ - if not zero beat - could get missed - at least for a few > cycles maybe. Bruce W8RA > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
