[Elecraft] All: Zero beat

[Ralph Parker]

>I was quite successful in the recent CQ WW contest and I think my ability
>to sit right on top of the DX with my K2 contributed a great deal.

Not neccessarily.
The bane of operators with a pileup (DXpedition or contest) are the
stations that all call on the same frequency, often zero-beat with the
called station.
This makes signals VERY hard to distinguish from one another.
It's most usually caused by everyone clicking on a station in a bandmap
derived from a cluster of some kind.
Be a more successful operator and offset your VFO by a few cycles (OK, hz),
so you'll stand out from the crowd.

Ralph, VE7XF
(been on both sides)