Hi Scott. You didn't say if he was a domestic station or a DX station, but
that should not matter actually. He was saying he was *listening* on *both*
7.128 and 7.033. He was listening for other people in the CQWW SSB contest.
Domestic stations and some DX stations could work him on 7128, and on 7033
other stations could call him there too. It's not legal for us to use SSB
on 7033 here in the USA. It's not legal for some people in other parts of
the world to use SSB on 7128. By doing it this way, he's casting the
largest net he can. The reasons you didn't hear anyone calling him on
either frequency are either because there was nobody calling him or because
their signals were not strong enough for you to hear them.
So your gut was correct, you just didn't get the satisfaction of hearing all
the stations involved doing it from start to finish for enough QSOs to get
your head wrapped around it.
Operating DX Contests split on 40M SSB is a time-honored tradition! Since
you're a newbie, you might not know this. If you felt like devoting several
days to the contest and driving some distance, you might find a Really Big
Multiop StationT where the operators could show you all about this and you
could do it with enough success to get you really hooked.
I know this because it's what happened when I got invited to K6RR in 1974 as
a teenager (thank you, N6TR, for the invitation). I spent all night
watching Pete Grillo do this back in The Glory Days.
Where do you live? Maybe someone on this list has a Really Big Multiop
StationT who is looking for operators. If you start planning now, you could
have a really great time in the ARRL DX SSB contest in March, or if you also
like CW, you could have a really great time in a couple weeks during the
CQWW CW Contest.
73 - Mark, N5OT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott" <scottmonks@hotmail.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:48 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] newbie question about split operating
Hi all;
I was enjoying the CQWW-SSB contest and I heard a station working split (I
think!). This is the first radio I have owned that would work split and so
I have never used that technique even though I knew what it was from reading
about it. The bands got a little dead on 40m so I figured that I would try
to understand what this operator was doing and learn something new, but I
couldn't figure it out--thus the question.
The operator was on 7.128.30 (on my dial) and kept saying (exact words)
"this frequency and 'seven zero three three'". Now, I know enough to know
this means that he was listening on this "other" frequency and transmitting
on the one I gave, but I couldn't find it. (Someone might even know who he
is just from the freq., but I didn't put the call in my log and it is not
important)
I tried adding 0.7033, 7.033 and 70.33 but I couldn't find anyone calling
him even by just tuning up and down from this freq and listening. Since he
had a really good strong signal I figured that he might be trying to contact
some DX stations in a country that could transmit SSB at 7.033MHz (CW band)
and that way keep low-point U.S. stations from calling him, but there was
nothing on SSB there that I could hear either.
The question is, what was he doing? By saying only "seven zero three three"
he lost me-- 'up 7.033' would seem clearer, but that is not what I heard
during the time I listened to him.
Thanks for any thoughts, and, if I worked you during the contest, thanks for
being so patient with a nervous newbie!
Scott AA0AA
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