I noticed the same thing about the pileups. I found it necessary to use
EXTENSIVELY the techniques I was taught by some Old Timers, some 40 years
ago. TIMING is EVERYTHING. Too bad no one teaches that any more.
I did learn I could break some pileups with ease. Others not possible till
it culled out a bit. TIMING and Persistence seems to be the way of today.
Dan/W4NTI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Walker" <rnwalker at bellsouth.net>
To: <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: [SECC] Claimed Score, K4TD, CQWW CW - 2005
> CQ WW Score Summary Sheet
>
> CallSign Used : K4TD
>
> Operator(s) : K4TD
>
> Band : ALL
>
> Power : HIGH
>
> Mode : CW
>
> Club/Team : South East Contest Club
>
> Operating Time: 25.65 Hours
>
>
>
> Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN
>
> 3.5 49 137 45 13
>
> 7 347 874 118 35
>
> 14 394 1090 125 38
>
> 21 222 632 102 25
>
> 28 23 62 23 13
>
> Total 1035 2795 413 124
>
>
>
> Score : 1,500,915
>
>
>
>
>
> I didn't get to devote as much time to this effort as I would have liked.
> My son got last minute leave from the Army and managed to get home in time
> for Thanksgiving. He had to leave going back early on Saturday morning so
> I
> didn't really get cranked up until around 1100 CST.
>
>
>
> I don't normally say too much in these emails, but I feel like I need to
> make one comment. I was appalled at the operating habits of some of the
> contesters that I listened to in the pileups. In most of the pileups I
> noticed that the operators would repeatedly send their calls over and over
> sometimes even while the DX station was transmitting. That makes it
> especially difficult to complete the exchange with a weak DX station. On
> numerous occasions, I was the station selected by the DX station from the
> pileup. The DX would send his response, but I wouldn't know it since I
> couldn't hear him for the 599+20dB guys repeatedly sending their calls
> over
> the top of his transmission. This resulted in the DX having to retransmit
> when the QRM finally died down, which really slowed the whole process. It
> reminded me of a study I did in designing a server for a communications
> intercept system many years ago using queuing theory. The throughput of
> the
> queue is clearly hampered when the server doesn't operate with maximum
> efficiency, which was the case in these pileups. I'm surprised that these
> operators haven't been able to figure this out yet. When I quit
> contesting
> in the late 1970s the important thing was to develop a good sense of
> timing
> as to when to send your call in a major pileup. Also, it was considered
> poor operating practice to send your call more than two times in a big
> pileup. It seems that the strategy has changed from good timing to simply
> trying to wear the DX station down by repeatedly sending ones own call
> until
> the DX responds.
>
>
>
> On a completely different note, I spent some time listening to 40 meter
> pileups being run by NQ4I (and K4XS). At times they were working EU
> stations that I couldn't even hear on my 4 element yagi at 140 feet. My
> compliments to Rick on his station and to the guys operating it. I was
> beginning to get the feeling that north Alabama might be an RF hole, and
> now
> I think it might be true. Guess I'm going to have to put up another yagi
> and see if a stack on 40 helps me hear any better.
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
>
> Rick
>
> K4TD
>
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