So.. if I am to expect to improve my score.... let's see if I got this
right.... I am to run... run.. run... and answer those calling with their
call... my exchange to them... but save a huge amount of time by only giving my
call... say once every ten minutes according to the FCC? right?
--... ...--
Dale - WC7S in Wy
> From: kzerohb@gmail.com
> To: xdavid@cis-broadband.com; cq-contest@contesting.com
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:51:14 +0000
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes
>
> You might want to go stand on a chair, Dave, and read that message again,
> because it went over your head the first time.
>
> OF COURSE it's silly!
>
> Next time I'll bracket it with indicators.
>
> [SILLY]
>
> ....silly message here.....
>
> [/SILLY]
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> --
> "Just a boy and his radio"
> --
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gilbert
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:50 AM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes
>
>
> That's a rather silly extrapolation. If I'm tuning the band and hear
> somebody giving their callsign to someone else I don't need to hear it
> again, and if I didn't hear it I can always ask for it. Works fine for
> everyone unless the running station abuses the system.
>
> Dave AB7E
>
>
>
> On 10/17/2012 9:26 AM, Radio K0HB 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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