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Re: [CQ-Contest] FT4 - Robotic Contesting

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FT4 - Robotic Contesting
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 01:07:19 -0700
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VERY different out west. FWIW, I have ZERO interest in grid-circling (which I view as an abortion) and multi-band pursuits. I'm an HF contester -- I find VHF contests beyond boring, and use them as nothing more than an opportunity to pick up rare grids.

I am particularly turned off by the nearly universal practice out here (W6) of working nothing but the SSB calling frequencies. I refuse to work any station that sits on the calling frequencies, and I've often deleted QSOs from my log of stations who I later find doing this very unsportsmanlike practice.

Don't look for me on CW or SSB on 6M -- I'll be on FT8 or MSK144.

73, Jim K9YC

On 4/30/2019 5:32 PM, John Geiger wrote:
I hope you are right about people realizing that CW and SSB are more productive on contests. Last year's June VHF contest was an absolute mess.  Almost everyone sat on FT8 with very little on CW and SSB.

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