[MiQP-Mail] Segue from "Suggestion for Mobiles/Rovers"

[ku8e@bellsouth.net]

Point #1 that Steve makes is very true...  The 40 meter SSB QSO's  (and 20 meters if you are further south , like me) you make are the difference between having a higher score then everyone else that are chasing the rovers around. In our case in GA,  when 20 meters opens we can call CQ and work many casual participants in the MQP. 40 SSB was the key to setting the out-of-state
record I set while in Ohio. I was sweating it this year becuase Paul, N4PN, came very close to breaking that !!  I can relax for another year... HI.

73, Jeff

> 
> From: "Stephen M. Murphy" <murphyst at co.oakland.mi.us>
> Date: 2006/04/20 Thu AM 08:28:38 EDT
> To: "David Pruett" <k8cc at comcast.net>,  <miqp-mail at miqp.org>
> Subject: [MiQP-Mail] Segue from "Suggestion for Mobiles/Rovers"
> 
> 
> Dave keyed in on two points that are essential not only for mobile ops, but
> for anyone interested in winning.  They're also two things that I, and I
> suspect others, do wrong every year:
> 
> 1) Work SSB. I don't like operating phone, I'd almost rather go to the
> dentist than run it for any length of time.  Missing these mults kills my
> score, though, so I need to get over this.  For example, comparing my score
> to KK8I, I had a significanly higher QSO total, but Uli's score was a few K
> higher due to his having more SSB mults.  And he did this QRP. What an
> animal!
> 
> 2)Work less productive bands.  Same rationale: Get more mults. I don't think
> I screwed this up too badly this year, although I did start running the
> second radio on 80m too early. I kept thinking about last year, when K8BB
> said 80 was productive as early as about 4:00 EDT. This year was different,
> hi. It's difficult to force yourself to focus on a less productive band if
> your rate on the "primary" band is at all reasonable, but looking at your
> Mult:QSO ratio screen more and the rate screen less helps to get over this
> mental block.
> 
> IMO, good SO2R techniques can mitigate both of these problem areas. I
> haven't trained my brain to do cross-mode SO2R very well yet, but I'm
> working on it.  Duelling CQ's kept me from losing too many mults on the less
> productive bands, as I was able to run 40 for the duration while
> simultaneously running on 20 or 80.  With the poor condx and low overall
> rates, this year was ideally suited to that sort of operating.
> 
> Thanks for letting me ramble on; and I apologize if any of this is less than
> coherent.  It's early, and it's been a rough week.
> 
> 73,
> Steve N8NM
> 
> 
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