[KCDXC] 160 Contest

Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:13:03 -0600

I had more trouble with KG0US than with AE9B and Tom lives closer to me!

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO

-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Tippin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 5:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [KCDXC] 160 Contest

At 05:27 PM 12/8/2002, Alan KI7WO wrote:
>I will be looking at a CW filter for the 570, if not that then a prybar 
>& a can of WD-40 to separate the call signs the next time.

You ran a CW contest with an SSB filter?? You really *are* a glutton for 
punishment...

>I don't know why so many stations were on top of each other.

They weren't; you just thought they were. About 10 stations will fit easily 
in the bandpass of a 2.4KHz SSB filter. So they just sounded like they were 
on top of each other. With a 250Hz filter, you don't hear anything but the 
station you're working (and of course AE9B if he's on the band...)

Get a 500Hz filter if you're going to do CW (or RTTY for that matter) - 
your ears will thank you for it. If your radio supports it, get a 250Hz
also.

>If on the second evening I invited a friend over to introduce him to 
>the joys of 160 does that change my category to - Single op, Single op, 
>shared radio & antenna?? We were running two seperate logging programs 
>on two seperate computers with two individual callsigns.

That was a KA0-something wasn't it? I followed you around for a while and 
every time you'd call, there'd be a KA0-something right after it! We're on 
to you, pal!

-NW0L

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