This is the first CQ WW SSB Contest I have listened to from this location. And the comparison to my previous location is striking.
This location is much worse for ham radio than the one I had about four miles from here — it is lower, on the side of a hill, with another hill due [...]
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K9JY CQ WW SSB 2008
June contesting weekend
It was a big contest weekend, at least here in the states with the ARRL VHF contest. Lots of people were out looking for elusive VHF openings and stations to work — and found them. Quickly perusing the scores this morning finds many stations worked over quite some distances. Amongst the floods of the [...]
Grey Lines Make Things Clear
One of the great challenges in contesting is knowing what band to be on at what time to maximize rate and multipliers (which are not necessarily the same band). And the most challenging time to figure out which band to be on is at sunrise and sunset — the greyline.
For example, at sunrise, the greyline [...]
30 Ham Radio Contest tips — Have an operating plan
This month, I’m providing a ham radio contest tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own contesting activities.
Today’s tip: Have an operating plan.
If you plan on spending a significant amount of time in a specific contest, particularly contests that are a full 48-hours long or ones that require certain times off, it’s [...]
Contesting for Beginners: Non-Contest Goals
Yesterday I wrote about having “non-contest” goals if you were just starting out contesting in ham radio. There were four reasons to have goals .
But, if there are reasons to have non-contest goals, then what non-goals should one have?
There are two areas of non-contest goals that make sense to me. The first is personal skill-set [...]
