zf2nt wrote:
> I believe it's the height of rudeness to plop down within someone else's
>500Hz bandwidth and blast away, then simply ignore the pleas of the
>fellow whose frequency you are essentially trying to steal.
I was away in Thailand when this thread was discussed, but I can't help
weighing in on the subject at this late date.
As one of my mentors, the late W3GRF, Contest Hall-of-Famer always said,
"It's a listening contest as well as a transmitting contest." In general,
anyone who considers himself to be a superior contestor should be able to
copy accurately through substantial amounts of QRM without complaint.
Those who know me know that I do not use narrow filters at any time and
instead rely on the filters between my ears that I was born with. I resent
the fact that someone else wants to define for me what my receiving
bandwidth should be by sending "QRL" when in fact I'm several hundred Hz
from being zero-beat with him.
In actual fact, the problem seldom occurs to me on CW. I am more likely to
encounter someone on SSB who proclaims "frequency in use" when I am in fact
more than 1 KHz away from his transmitting frequency. My stock answer is:
"If you had to move the dial to tell me it was in use, then it wasn't", and
I mean it!
73, Fred
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>From Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc@dialup.mplik.ru Wed May 12 16:21:14 1999
From: Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc@dialup.mplik.ru (Igor Sokolov)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] SCP
Message-ID: <008f01be9c8b$1aea4320$0100a8c0@pp2555.dialup.mplik.ru>
Doug KR2Q wrote:
>Gee whiz. In CQWWDX, the ONLY thing you (essentially) asked to do is to
>COPY
>THE CALLSIGN [for the majority of cases, the zone is determined by
>callsign].
That is only one contest out of many.
> Either you copied the callsign or you didn't copy the callsign...PERIOD.
>The only reason why anyone should bother to look at SCP is the LATTER case.
When having exam for my license in Russia I had to answer different
questions and give detailed explanations. When taking exam for US license in
Washington DC I had multiple choice questions which in my opinion is a lot
easier. It just allows much more room for guessing. Yet I never thought that
the latter approach is not really an exam.
In the worst case what you describe is just the same as multiple choice and
even more difficult. There is always a risk that the one you are trying to
copy is not in the data base.
>If you knock out COPYING the callsign yourself, then what is left of HUMAN
>competition? The only thing REQUIRED is to accurately copy AND accurately
>log the call/exchange (depending on the contest).
There are a lot of things in the contest other then just mechanically
copying the code.
You do need to be able to copy CW and if you do it better it may give you
some edge over your competitors. Yet if you don't know propagation and
cannot handle pileup reasonably well and ... and... you will not get a
good result.
You are not required to copy in RTTY contests but they are still contests.
>Computers should be used
>for "housekeeping" functions, but NOT to replace the human skill which is
>the
>basis of the competition.
Computers should be used for freeing the human from routine work and let
human op exercise creativity.
Igor, UA9CDC
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