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Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX CW -- disappointing experience

To: Tom Hellem <tom.hellem@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX CW -- disappointing experience
From: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:49:44 -0500
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Narrow up your filter and use the RIT.  It does work.

Or hit Morse Runner for some more practice.

73 Rich NN3W

On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 12:35 PM Tom Hellem <tom.hellem@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pete:
> I’m not really seeing how the stations in EU not  hearing each other has 
> anything to do with the problem.
>
> Here’s a typical exchange:
> I call cq. A pile of 8 stations responds. I copy DL5 and put it in the call 
> sign field, hit F5 three times. The same 8 station pile comes back again, 
> only one that I can discern having DL5 in the call. Rest are I, EW, UA, S5, 
> etc. Repeat sequence 2 more times until enough finally shut up that I can get 
> the DL5’s full call.
> Sound familiar?
>
> Tom H
> K0SN
>
> > On Feb 23, 2024, at 6:12 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would rank most of us below the Japanese when it comes to average 
> > operating etiquette, but it's worth remembering that particularly on the 
> > high bands callers often can't hear each other, and the "1X?" sort of 
> > obscure query can lead to a number of callers who have found the fragment 
> > in their calls (or close to) and choose to believe it's them..
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
> >
> >> On 2/23/2024 5:56 PM, Tom Hellem wrote:
> >> Art et al:
> >> I had the same experience during the peaks of the high band openings to EU 
> >> on both days. Nothing serves as a rate-killer like a bunch of stations all 
> >> calling on the same frequency over and over. I have never experienced 
> >> operating practice that bad in 30 years of contesting. Contrasted with the 
> >> JA’s and to be fair, most other areas, it’s like night and day.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >> K0SN
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> On Feb 23, 2024, at 2:41 PM, Art Boyars<artboyars@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In case you didn't read my post on 3830scores.com (and why would you?)...
> >>>
> >>> I did Saturday night and a bit of Sunday morning at W3LPL.  When I got 
> >>> home
> >>> Sunday I did one "fresh meat" run on each band, 10M, 15M, 20M, 40M.  Great
> >>> rates, for 15 minutes or so.  However (quoting myself):
> >>>
> >>> A comment/complaint: Some of the European Big Guns (especially the
> >>> multi-op's) were VERY aggressive callers.  I'd send a partial call, and
> >>> several other stations would keep calling.  I guess they needed the MD
> >>> multiplier.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 73, Art K3KU
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