[PPRAANet] [ppdxg] FD

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM,  <DESloan at aol.com> wrote:

>   I just got through taking a class on FD at the Contest  University in
> Dayton. To minimize the points they said you should start with a  station on

minimize or maximize?

CW gets you more points, but there's a bottomless pit of phone
stations to work on 40 and 20.

> phone for both twenty and forty meters. Then the next two stations  should be
> cw on twenty and forty meters. After that a twenty meter RTTY station.
> Then start filling in other bands. Opps I forgot that you need a GOTA station
> on  twenty meters phone. They recommended using dipole antennas at least 1/2
> wave  above ground and orientated end to end. They said that the 27A group
> in Maryland  does it this way and has not intermod problems and makes at
> least 9000 contacts  every year.

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us