[Elecraft] SSB Contesting filtering out contesters

[Phil Wheeler]

True magic for non-contesters would be to filter 
out all contesters and have a quiet band :-)

Guess that's called "Move to WARC bands".

Phil W7OX

On 9/2/16 10:50 AM, David Smith wrote:
> Have a question I feel I know the answer to.  I am an avid contester and
> when contesting thru the years (since 1978 and especially on 40 meters) have
> always had problems filtering out on my receive other contest stations who
> bleed over to my receive frequency their signals so I care hear the weaker
> stations coming back to me, mainly domestic contests.  Thru the years
> operated IC 765, Omni 6+ and now the K3S.  Still with DSP filtering, etc. I
> feel this is a way of life with contesting.  Have had this discussion with
> many of my big gun contesters and we feel this must be a way of life with
> ssb contests.  CW contests are much easier to filter out the side to side
> stations.  My directional antennas on these bands help a lot but guess this
> is the way of life with ssb contesting.  Would like other input from your
> experiences.
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> Thanks
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> David, ND4Y  (KS3, KS2, KX2 owner)