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Re: [CQ-Contest] Zero Beat ? Not everybody does !,

To: Jim McCook <JimW6YA@cox.net>, CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Zero Beat ? Not everybody does !,
From: Joe <nss@mwt.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 17:02:30 -0600
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I wonder if some of these spots that are way off are from people that have their loggers set up to spot all S&P contacts, and they when they make a contact are way off the station being worked frequency, so the resulting spot is also way off?

Joe WB9SBD

On 12/9/2025 3:29 PM, Jim McCook wrote:
My belief is that the worst thing a caller can do in a contest is call the other station zero beat with him.  Not far away, but a reasonable distance either side of zero beat within a normal passband, depending on the contest participation. The exception, of course, would be if there were only one caller. Too often a spot is the zero beat frequency, so the caller clicks on that frequency and calls the DX, which creates chaos in a contest.  The best way to make the contact in a contest is to call _off_ zero beat, which helps other callers hear the DX.  It's hard for the DX when he can tell the callers are QRMing each other and can't hear him.  Jim
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