Hi Ian,
I think the best SO2R training grounds are the state QSO parties. The
pace is nice and slow, and you may not care much about your score or
about sounding like a novice.
After that - on to NAQP. The ten hour format gives enough time for some
limited SO2R without hurting your score much, and there always seem to
be slower guys up on the edges that you can practice on.
Sunday afternoon in SS is good too, but I would try the two above first.
Aggressive SO2R in Sprints? Something like a black belt in karate -
takes more than a little practice!
Hal
Subject: RE: [SECC] Winning SS
I'd like to do SS this year. From somewhere. :) My interest was piqued
by
your comment about Sunday being good training for SO2R. This is
something
I've yet to try as none of my host stations over the years have had this
capability. That is to say, not without still having to manually switch
antennas and radios, and the logging software every time I changed a
band ;)
I end up spending a bit of time at the start of every season wondering
which
'test would be the best to really learn SO2R. I always end up coming to
the
same conclusion, and that is that I end up fearing that I'll blow any
chance
of a reasonable finish due to a learning curve that may or may not be as
high as I always fear it to be. As a result, the seasons pass, and my
skill
set goes nowhere! :)
Maybe that'll change this year :)
73,
Ian, K5ZM... one of those left coasters
www.k5zm.com
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