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Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes

To: Radio K0HB <kzerohb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes
From: Timothy Coker <n6win73@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:39:50 -0700
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Hans... you come up with some stuff I don't agree with, but dang was that
funny. You got to love a post that takes all the belly aching on these
forums and can make a man laugh.

73,

Tim /N6WIN
http://www.n6win.com
On Oct 17, 2012 7:30 PM, "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why would anyone need to know your call.   Just slows things down.  We
> could suspend calls completely in contests, and think of how the scores
> would increase.
>
> "QRZ"
>
> "FYE NYE FOE"
>
> "FYE NYE EIGHT QRZ"
>
> "FYE NYE SIX"
>
> "FYE NYE EIGHT QRZ"
>
> But wait, note the redundancy there.....  Everyone says "FYE NYE" so we
> can eliminate that delay also.
>
> "QRZ"
>
> "FOE"
>
> "EIGHT QRZ"
>
> "SIX"
>
> "EIGHT QRZ"
>
> And, oh, that "QRZ" is slowing me down.  Lets do this.
>
> "EIGHT"
>
> "FOE"
>
> "EIGHT"
>
> "SIX"
>
> ...silence.....
>
> "ZED?"
>
> "FIE"
>
> "EIGHT"
>
> "FOE"
>
> "EIGHT"
>
> "FUM"
>
> "Again?"
>
>
>
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> --
> "Just a boy and his radio"
> --
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Farnsworth
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:23 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes
>
> Thank you for NOT requiring both stations to ID.
>
>
>
> When I have dozens (if not more) participants in my pile-up, who know who I
> am, who have been waiting, who are hoping I will hear them next.
>
> vs.
>
> One impatient person who happens on the pile-up noise, may not even hear me
> and wants immediate attention.
>
>
>
> Which way am I better serving the contest frenzy?  By going as fast as I
> can
> to get everybody in the log?  Or, by slowing down my CW speed, giving my
> callsign between each and every QSO and having to wait while the other
> station sends my call?
>
>
> 73, Dave
>
> Dave Farnsworth, WJ2O
> www.WJ2O.com
>
>
>
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