Hi Jim et al,
Have to side with kq2m on items on 1 thru 17, I even thought of about 8 of
those on my own.
I am one of those who does appreciate a "perfectly" timed tail ender,
unfortunately this is more frequently offset by some ops have no timing at all.
Never ask a station when they will be on another band? - I consider that
pretty much in the same category as the multi - multi and multi -2 guys
moving the dx station to another band or bands.
I sure don't like it when it happens to me when a mult I have just found
QSY's to another band on request but this isn't going away soon. most of the
major contesting programs now track how many "passes" are made between bands.
Band passing used to happen most often in the last few hours of the contests
but with instantaneous network updating of 9 or more computers now in place
at most of the big multi stations, we know at a glance the exact frequency
every other "position" is transmitting is on and can instantly notify any other
operator on any band that we are sending some one their way. we will be
seeing more band passing not less. It' is well known that "that which gets
"tracked" improves, which means that even one more mult being passed from band
to
band than was done the year before is an improvement. Just a fact of life
nowadays and of course legal..
Champions "adjust"
73
Chet N6ZO, KP4EAJ, VP2A, ZD8W, VQ9XX, KG4ZO
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