Point taken and done quite often. The problem is the idiots calling on top
of the station blow it out of the water so you can't copy the fact that the
station came back to you!
Dump it in is reinforced every time it works and that's the problem.
How can the contest community turn this around? Oh I know there will always
be guys who do it but if we could reduce this by half then it would be
easier for everyone to work the Q and move on (higher rate, higher score).
This gets to be particularly important when you are dealing with a slim
opening such as gray line.
Pete, W1RM
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
kr2q@optimum.net
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 2:15 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] WHY - and other observed behavior
Well, I heard lots of the "dump it in" behavior. From my 3830 posting:
[snip]
It never ceases to amaze me how many guys want to use brute force instead of
finesse
to snag a needed one.
[end snip]
I worked one "rare" mult who had a giant pileup up (I used the above method:
finesse).
While listening first, before calling, I heard one W2 caller in particular
(HP) who was
being totally LID-ish (not listening and/or copying). I worked the DX (with
my QRP) and
moved on. Later, probably 10 minutes, I happened to tune across the pileup
again and, you
guessed it, the HP lid was still not listening and still blindly dumping it
in. Very productive....
NOT!
MY OTHER NOTABLE OBSERVATION:
If they guy you're calling is not getting your call, SLOW DOWN. I heard
many of the USA
M/M's dumping it in. The DX came back with their partial or busted call.
The US guys seem
to forget that CW has a speed control. What a waste of time. If the DX
can't copy 40 wpm,
do you think sending your call 3x, 4x, or 5x is going to teach him how to
copy faster?
Even worse, not uncommonly, the DX never got the caller's callsign correct.
But the caller,
knowing how the CQWW log analysis system works (busted calls have no impact
on the caller,
but rather only on the logger), simply moves off, knowing full well that
their call was busted
in the other guys log. The M/M gets credit while the poor DX he works gets
dinged. SHAME!
For goodness sake, just SLOW DOWN so the DX can copy you. It takes more
time to do it
the wrong way and end up with one party getting dinged for a busted call.
Teach your
op's how to QRS on cw. Honestly, QRSing to 25 wpm is just NOT THAT SLOW!
Do the right
thing!
de Doug KR2Q
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