At the peak of the previous cycle, I had a good bash on the CW day peaking
well over 200 per hour and ended up burning out the balun on my TH-5 yagi!
73
ATB
David W Wood
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ARRL 10-meter Contest Strategy
careful what you wish for hi hi...I expect the cw portion of 10 will be
mighty crowded this year as conditions are so very good.
with the flux being right up there, I would imagine we'll have world wide
openings on 10 like we did with the cqww and with the japanese 10M contest a
few weeks back.
It's allot of fun on ten when you can hear south america, asia, australia,
and europe all fighting in a pile up.
It's amazing to have 5 continents open on 10 meters during a contest, and
sometimes, all at the same time.
I still have yet to work africa on 10 from my home station though, so
perhaps we can get lucky this weekend.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 6:13 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ARRL 10-meter Contest Strategy
> Hi, everyone.
>
>
>
> The recent post from David (G3YXX) got me to thinking about the best
> strategy for this week-end's ARRL 10-meter contest, and I'm now interested
> in any thoughts from the group on what might be the best way to go.
>
>
>
> My originally-planned strategy was to do a completely CW operation. This
> was based on the idea that you get 2 points per contact, and that you
> would
> be working under considerably less-crowded band conditions.
>
>
>
> However, David's idea of doing CW one day, and SSB the next has caused me
> to
> re-consider my strategy.
>
>
>
> I'm interested in what others who are planning to play in the contest are
> thinking of doing.
>
>
>
> I fully realize that, with my rather meager antenna setup here, I am not
> going to be able to adequately compete with the big guns, but I would like
> to see what kind of a score I can achieve during the hours I'll be able to
> operate on both Saturday and Sunday.
>
>
>
> Hopefully, band conditions will be reasonably good for the event.
>
>
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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