As I type this, I am sitting here fuming mad and deliberating on whether to keep plugging away in the CQWW SSB contest or just shut off the PC and radio. Blessed with three young children (two toddle
Hi John I have found that if you find someone that you are familiar with, that helps if you explain it's a mult for you. Last year I worked a zone 3 station for a double mult on 20 and they didn't lo
John, Wow ! Sorry to hear that you were treated this way esp the ss part of the reply in my mind he should have worked you He could have done so in the amount of time it took for him to expel his cra
John, Your feelings are normal. I know this is more prevalent from the USA side than it would be from the VE side, however I still had many VE3's call me (especially on 20m) this weekend in the conte
Hi John Please keep in mind why you decided to play radio in the first place - namely - to have FUN. At the same time, you run into people of all types. Some don't like contesters, some have read (or
Hi John, Sorry to hear there are some people who just can't be bothered to stop listening to static and punching F1 for a few seconds to hand out a mult. I spent about 15 hours BIC at the N7AT M2 thi
My answer is Never Refuse. That includes dups where it is faster to work them than to explain. Includes rude who tell me to QSY. Includes those moving in .5 kc away. Includes those who have told me o
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:55:56 +0100
I worked a couple of dozen dupes Sunday night because of a bad cluster spot. I got spotted as P14DX on 40 meters. All the dupes came from NA. I ID almost each QSO and if I call "QRZ" it's never more
Of course I meant 14.300. Tired fingers after a weekend of typing... _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mail
Agreed! I bet I worked 100 zero pointers this weekend. hmm... 100 x say, 5 seconds per Q = 500 seconds or 8 minutes out of 48 hours. Much Ado About Nothing. Work everything that calls you. Doing anyt
Ditto. Work the dupes and work and work all callers. Last thing we want to do is give a casual op or newbie to contesting a sour taste. Make it fun its a game! 73, Martin N4UU _______________________
Author: Michael Schulz <mschulz@creative-chaos.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:32:57 -0700
It takes more time and completely destroys the rhythm when running to tell people they are dupes or B4 than rather work them and let the logger sort it out. Why bother? Nobody calls a dupe on purpose
I guess this is a good reason why you should record your contests. What if any would be the penalty for working and not logging someone? Log everything you work and don't look back. During the contes
Author: Larry via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 03:13:10 -0400
hello all, i is my prerogative to work any station that i please. in this instance John, W2ID kept on calling and covering up DX that was calling me. after a few unanswered calls he should have reali
I bet I worked 100 zero pointers this weekend. hmm... 100 x say, 5 seconds per Q = 500 seconds or 8 minutes out of 48 hours. Much Ado About Nothing. You need to spend time in my shoes, spending the w
Andy, you make a good point that some folks participate in contests for reasons other than to rack up a big score. I'm in Indiana and I have a 9 call. A couple of years ago, I was working the Illino
Steve, Spent many hours on 40m phone (yuck!) trying to work s2 EU stations with 20/9 background QRM, and many of those "types" calling me -- "DANG! You are the loudest signal on the band!" Yep, gave
Hi Larry, By any chance do you happen to have a recording of the contest which demonstrates that I "kept on calling and covering up DX that was calling" you? If so, I would very much like to hear it.
It takes more time and completely destroys the rhythm when running to tell people they are dupes or B4 than rather work them and let the logger sort it out. Why bother? Nobody calls a dupe on purpose
I assume you did not mean W2GD, rather W2ID, at the end of your message. I emphatically do not agree with you. In the time you ignored W2ID you could have worked him five or six times. He probably co