Hi Paul
You wrote: "If you're just jumping . . ."
What do you mean me? I don't do this! I'm was just making the point that
you could do this. I get enough UBNs due to my poor antennas and weak
received signals, especially on 40, 80 & 160. But I believe that a serious
effort that combines quickly jumping through the band map for multipliers
and careful tuning will benefit your score. Please take what I say with a
grain of salt. I am not a serious contester. I just play. My biggest
problem is the lack of "in the chair time." And like you said careful
tuning got me some weak mults, that had they been spots, I could not have
competed in the pileups.
73 Art W2NRA
> Thanks Art,
> I am fairly comfortable with logging software but one thing I never
> do is assume the cluster is correct. If you're just jumping from
> spot to spot and relying on others to provide all the info, you
> must have a pretty high UBN rate. It also takes the fun out of
> tuning for that weak rare one.
> In the contests where I use the cluster, it's for a specific
> purpose and I always verify the callsign myself first. A lot of
> the time I'm just trying to get new countries and other counters.
> If all that gets spotted in a DXcontest is domestic spots, that's
> no good either. And, quite frankly, as one responder pointed out,
> not all the good stuff gets spotted.
> No, I've resolved to wean myself off the cluster and go it alone
> in major contests. I did better this past weekend without it than
> I did last year with it; granted I have an amp and a better
> antenna system now.
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