IMHO, much of contesting is personal and based on your own experience of what
works best. I think the best contesting tip is get your butt in the chair and
keep it there. Practice, practice, practice (my gosh, I sound like my mother
talking about piano lessons!).
73 de Al, KE1FO
----- Original Message -----
From: John Laney
Sent: 1/30/2004 3:05:22 PM
To: SHanlon@dnr.state.md.us
Cc: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] contesting tips
> Steve:
>
> I don't know the source of your information that tuning from the top
> down is better for USB and the reverse on LSB. Maybe my ears are
> different from that person's, but I think it is much easier to tune from
> the bottom up on USB and from the top down on LSB. That is because you
> hear intelligible sound from the station first as you approach it. You
> are tuning first to the intelligible sideband. If you tune as your
> correspondent suggests, you hear nothing but garble until you are right
> on the spot where the station can be understood. Most of the time you
> will tune past that spot and have to reverse and tune back. You
> shouldn't have that problem if you tune toward the desired SSB and keep
> tuning until the voice sounds clear.
>
> Just my experience of almost 50 years (even though some will tell you
> that they were all on CW, but that would be perhaps an exaggeration).
>
> 73,
>
> John.
>
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