I think most reasonable people would define the "tail ending" technique
as: timing the transmission of ones own call to coincide with the hordes of
other DXers all temporarily ending their calling at about the same time to
catch a breath. During this second or fraction of a second the QRM drops
many DB and the 100 watt DXer can throw his suffix or even full call in and
be heard. It's a perfectly legitimate technique and I used it for many years
when running 100 watts on phone and got DXCC doing it. It works on CW too
when the hand cramps set in, especially when your CW pitch is higher then
the hordes.
Only recently did I start using a linear on 160 and still only 400 watts
RMS.
73,
Thomas Giella, KN4LF
Plant City, FL
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