[nrv-hams] Competing just for fun

[Kenneth Walker]

Kay,

I really enjoy these. Thanks.

Ken

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Kay Craigie <n3kn at verizon.net> wrote:

> I just finished operating in the CQ World Wide CW contest, and having
> successfully worked a few stations that were very close to the noise level,
> I was reminded of an erroneous assumption I used to make that no doubt cost
> me some nice contacts in the way-back-when.
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> When I was new in ham radio, and especially when I was new in competitive
> operating, I usually didn't call a weak-sounding station because I assumed
> that if he heard my signal as lightly as I heard his, it was probably a
> waste of time to try.
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> I was mistaken. Propagation does weird things sometimes, for one thing. For
> another, some hams have special receiving antennas that hear signals much
> better than they hear noise, so my 100 watts back then might have been fine
> at their stations. Also, experienced operators have good ears and can pull
> signals out of QRM and QRN like nobody's business -- maybe it's telepathy,
> I
> don't know.
>
> I no longer assume that my signal won't be audible by a station who sounds
> weak to me. Maybe so, but maybe not. As TV commercials used to say about
> the
> Pennsylvania Lottery, you have to play to win.
>
> 73 - Kay N3KN
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