I had antenna failure so Sunday I put up an Inverted V from my hilltop
location. I don't have Internet up there so use the dial. It's fun with a low
signal to grab some poor guy calling CQ on and open frequency. Somewhere along
the way I heard a weak Carib station make a contact and the comment that he
wasn't making many contacts. The guy he was in QSO with said something like,
Let Me Help, Then: Wait for them. And the frequency blew up before the guy even
called CQ again! Is that Ham Radio. But it sure did ruin the Freq.
N0UU
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 11:23:58 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr@gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com ,
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> OK, I'll bite.? I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's
> station yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots being
> generated.? Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to be multi-2
> this year.? Up until 15 minutes ago, since they went to 15 and 10 at
> 1200Z, where you can assume they are running constantly, I count only 16
> spots (in 3+ hours).
>
> What is really sad is that somewhere around half the QSOs in CQWW are
> made using N1MM Logger+, which has a one-check Config menu option to
> "spot all S&P QSOs."? It costs you nothing, in effort or anything else,
> to enable this option, and has no effect on your Unassisted status if
> you turn it on.
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net>
> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 9:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
>
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was
> not a
> > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating
> > question,
> > nor a rules or technical question.
> >
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:27:30 -0700
> From: David Gilbert <ab7echo@gmail.com mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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>
> I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed at how
> many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any
> answers.? Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a
> similar boat.
>
> Dave? AB7E
>
>
> On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
>
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was
> not a
> > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating
> > question,
> > nor a rules or technical question.
> >
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
> >
> > >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:18:49 -0400
> From: Richard DiDonna <richnn3w@gmail.com mailto:richnn3w@gmail.com >
> To: David Gilbert <ab7echo@gmail.com mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com >
> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> Has nothing to do with how active the cq-contest reflector is. It has
> everything to do with how addicted to packet users have gotten. We could CQ
> until we were blue in the face and get 1 QSO a minute. Get spotted - bam.
> Rate went to 7 QSOs a minute.
>
> People have forgotten what that big, fat knob in the middle of their
> radios are supposed to do.
>
> 73
>
> Rich PJ2/NN3W
>
> > > On Oct 30, 2022, at 6:24 PM, David Gilbert <ab7echo@gmail.com
> mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed
> > at how many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any
> > answers. Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a
> > similar boat.
> >
> > Dave AB7E
> >
> > > > > On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there
> > > was not a
> > > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an
> > > operating question,
> > > nor a rules or technical question.
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
> > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
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> > >
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:08:45 +0000 (UTC)
> From: jpescatore@aol.com mailto:jpescatore@aol.com
> To: "cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com "
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW
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> I made 375 Qs, more than I've made in the SSB test in? many years.
> Activity was very high - you can see it in the scores reported in the first
> hour after the contest ended.
> There was plenty of spotting compared to every other phone contests. I
> don't think anyone has any obligation to turn spotting on.
> I'd answer Whither CQ WW with "up up and away" by all signs.
> 73 John K3TN
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:24:53 -0700
> From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com
> mailto:k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com >
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> On 10/30/2022 8:23 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>
> > > OK, I'll bite.? I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's
> > station yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots
> > being
> > generated.? Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to be
> > multi-2
> > this year.? Up until 15 minutes ago, since they went to 15 and 10 at
> > 1200Z, where you can assume they are running constantly, I count
> > only 16
> > spots (in 3+ hours).
> >
> > > Since I don't live or contest from anywhere near the Atlantic
> > Ocean, I'm
> not really in the contest, even if I enter it. I got on for an hour or
> two, sampling 10, then 15, then 20, figuring to give a few points to
> NCCC members at stations they travel to, or which they operate remotely
> in exotic places. I made a few QSOs, if for no other reason than to
> confirm that my antennas still work, but with zero motivation to
> compete, or to waste more time in it. It's been at least ten years since
> I was motivated to operate CQWW or an ARRL DX contest. I DO take all
> three WPX contests seriously, simply because, thanks to scoring rules, I
> AM in that contest.
>
> I was also surprised by the meager number of spots. I suspect that may
> be the result of getting used to automatic spotting by many skimmers,
> and getting out of the habit.
>
> I also took a few minutes to let a couple of Texas stations know that
> they were splattering badly each time I tuned past them. Both hadn't a
> clue about simple things -- when I mentioned that some rigs inherently
> generate lots of splatter (Yaesu sold a bunch in relatively recent
> history that do), he said he was running a 6700, and I observed that I'd
> heard that they were pretty clean, so asked about ALC to his Expert
> power amp. He said he wasn't using any ALC, but when I told him that he
> needed to set the amp's output power by reducing drive from his radio,
> he repeatedly told me that "power was set automatically."
>
> Sounds clueless to me.
>
> Surprisingly, while there were the usual number of stations with badly
> over-driven audio that made them hard to copy, particularly their CQ
> messages, I found only those two stations splattering. And there were
> the usual number of ego-driven lids who finished a QSO with "QRZ"
> instead of their call. I love K6XX's advice at the Contesting workshops
> that NCCC organizes at Visalia -- "QRZ is not your call," making the
> point that your call is ADVERTISING, QRZ is not. Have these lids never
> operated S&P? Do they not realize that any decent op who tunes them and
> doesn't hear them sign their call after every QSO is going to move on to
> someone who does? Given that most operators with a serious shot at
> winning are using a 2x1 or 1x2, why use QRZ, three syllables that say
> nothing in place of four (without phonetics) that ADVERTISE?
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC)
> From: jimk8mr@aol.com mailto:jimk8mr@aol.com
> To: "richnn3w@gmail.com mailto:richnn3w@gmail.com " <richnn3w@gmail.com
> mailto:richnn3w@gmail.com >, "ab7echo@gmail.com mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com "
> <ab7echo@gmail.com mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com >
> Cc: "cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com "
> <cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com >
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> We've also just gone through a period where any phone DX contest, with
> everyone squeezed into twenty meters, was of little interest for probably 90%
> of people with less than super stations.
>
> I was only on for the last hour, using an attic dipole, having just
> arrived at the Florida winter QTH, but from reports of ten meters being
> filled to 28900 or so, there was now room for people with modest stations to
> have fun. It may take a while for people to appreciate that, but we should
> have a few good years for phone DX contests coming up.
>
>
> 73? -? Jim? ?K8MR
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard DiDonna <richnn3w@gmail.com mailto:richnn3w@gmail.com >
> To: David Gilbert <ab7echo@gmail.com mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com >
> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com
> Sent: Sun, Oct 30, 2022 8:18 pm
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
>
> Has nothing to do with how active the cq-contest reflector is.? It has
> everything to do with how addicted to packet users have gotten.? We could CQ
> until we were blue in the face and get 1 QSO a minute.? Get spotted - bam.?
> Rate went to 7 QSOs a minute.
>
> People have forgotten what that big, fat knob in the middle of their
> radios are supposed to do.
>
> 73
>
> Rich PJ2/NN3W
>
> > > On Oct 30, 2022, at 6:24 PM, David Gilbert <ab7echo@gmail.com
> mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed
> > at how many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any
> > answers.? Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a
> > similar boat.
> >
> > Dave? AB7E
> >
> > > > > On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there
> > > was not a
> > > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an
> > > operating question,
> > > nor a rules or technical question.
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
> > >
> > > > >
> > > ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:39:16 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr@gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
> Message-ID: <1cb7b5d9-bb74-a2e6-92b3-678cedb4ee8a@gmail.com
> 1cb7b5d9-bb74-a2e6-92b3-678cedb4ee8a@gmail.com">mailto:1cb7b5d9-bb74-a2e6-92b3-678cedb4ee8a@gmail.com >
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> Well, yes and no.? I, for one, find the endless routine of Tune - Find -
> Check - Dupe - Tune Again to be excruciating.? This has nothing to do
> with the Contest reflector, and it may be strictly a function of my age,
> but I don't find unassisted S&P enjoyable any more.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net>
> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 8:18 PM, Richard DiDonna wrote:
>
> > > Has nothing to do with how active the cq-contest reflector is. It
> has everything to do with how addicted to packet users have gotten. We could
> CQ until we were blue in the face and get 1 QSO a minute. Get spotted - bam.
> Rate went to 7 QSOs a minute.
> >
> > >
> > > People have forgotten what that big, fat knob in the middle of
> their radios are supposed to do.
> >
> > >
> > > 73
> >
> > >
> > > Rich PJ2/NN3W
> >
> > > >> On Oct 30, 2022, at 6:24 PM, David Gilbert<ab7echo@gmail.com
> > mailto:ab7echo@gmail.com > wrote:
> >>
> >> ?
> >> I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed at
> how many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any
> answers. Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a similar
> boat.
> >>
> >> Dave AB7E
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
> >>> In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not
> a
> >>> single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating
> question,
> >>> nor a rules or technical question.
> >>>
> >>> cain K1TN
> >> _______________________________________________
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:45:13 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr@gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW
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> I'm prepared to believe that other contests are even worse, but is 50
> spots in the last 12 hours (see DX Summit) for both running stations at
> W3LPL really a lot?? 4 an hour? My point was that if you have the
> capability, spotting all S&P QSOs helps everybody.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net>
> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 9:08 PM, K3TN via CQ-Contest wrote:
>
> > > I made 375 Qs, more than I've made in the SSB test in? many
> years. Activity was very high - you can see it in the scores reported in the
> first hour after the contest ended.
> > There was plenty of spotting compared to every other phone
> > contests. I don't think anyone has any obligation to turn spotting on.
> > I'd answer Whither CQ WW with "up up and away" by all signs.
> > 73 John K3TN
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
> >
> > > ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:51:11 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr@gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> On 10/30/2022 11:24 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>
> > > I found only those two stations splattering. And there were the
> usual
> > number of ego-driven lids who finished a QSO with "QRZ" instead of
> > their call. I love K6XX's advice at the Contesting workshops that
> > NCCC
> > organizes at Visalia -- "QRZ is not your call," making the point
> > that
> > your call is ADVERTISING, QRZ is not.
> >
> > > I am a great fan of the Pregnant Pause, particularly if you have
> multiple callers.? Simply by pausing (literally a second) between
> "thanks" and your callsign, you can usefully pick up your rate. It's not
> that you don't send your call - I'd say at least every 3 QSOs - but that
> you just wait a sec to see if anyone jumps in.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at <" rel="noopener"
> target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:15:35 -0400
> From: Michael Walker <va3mw@portcredit.net mailto:va3mw@portcredit.net >
> To: jpescatore@aol.com mailto:jpescatore@aol.com
> Cc: "cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com "
> <cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com >
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW
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> The opposite was true for me. I did 1153 Q's
>
> Way too many American's still operating out of band
>
> *Band QSOs Zones Countries*
> ------------------------------
> 160: 67 4 4
> 80: 245 10 18
> 40: 201 18 45
> 20: 204 17 57
> 15: 200 24 79
> 10: 236 23 88
> ------------------------------
> Total: 1153 96 291
>
> Amazing all those trying to work Thailand on 7125 LSB on Saturday morning.
>
>
> When I mentioned on
> the air that all you Americans are out of band and you all stopped
> transmitting,
> it did make it easy for me to work him since all the QRM vaporized!
>
> It was actually pretty funny.
>
> This was the first time I have actually done Assisted in some time and
> my DX Cluster only receives spots from spotters that are in the NE US
> of A.
>
> It sort of was like doing FT8. CTRL-Up Arrow, call the next guy
>
> in the cluster by hitting F4 and then F2. CTRL-Up again, repeat. I
> would point the beam at Europe and work all the EU guys and walk
>
> the band.
>
>
> Get to the end of the band, spin the beam to the Carribean and then
> work my way down. Change bands from 15 to 10 and do it again.
>
> I very seldom spun the VFO since I almost never ran out of contacts
> for the time I was actually operating
>
> I only ran on 160, 80 and 40 and only for a bit.
>
> What would happen if we had a contest and ban the use of DX Clusters?
> Would people actually get on the air?
>
> I looked at my cluster (VA3MW-7) and we had over 20,000 spots on both
> days. On a normal day, we would have ~1-2000 on a weekday and about 5000 a
> day on a weekend. For CQWW we had 4 times as many spots.
>
> If you log onto a cluster, you can do a show/hf to get a summary.
>
> Maybe you weren't connected to a fully connected cluster or you had some
> filters running.
>
> Mike va3mw
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 9:22 AM K3TN via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest@contesting.com mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com > wrote:
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> > > I made 375 Qs, more than I've made in the SSB test in many years.
> > Activity was very high - you can see it in the scores reported in
> > the first
> > hour after the contest ended.
> > There was plenty of spotting compared to every other phone
> > contests. I
> > don't think anyone has any obligation to turn spotting on.
> > I'd answer Whither CQ WW with "up up and away" by all signs.
> > 73 John K3TN
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> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:17:00 +0000
> From: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQQ WW?
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> If you have a small, impotent station, and you are SMART, you tune around
> and call the stations you can hear.
>
> Why on earth would somebody in, say, Europe, with a little station, need a
> spot for a beacon like W3LPL?
>
> cain K1TN
>
> OK, I'll bite. I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's station
> yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots being generated.
> Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to be multi-2 this year. Up
> until 15 minutes ago, since they went to 15 and 10 at 1200Z, where you can
> assume they are running constantly, I count only 16 spots (in 3+ hours).
>
> What is really sad is that somewhere around half the QSOs in CQWW are made
> using N1MM Logger+, which has a one-check Config menu option to "spot all
> S&P QSOs." It costs you nothing, in effort or anything else, to enable
> this option, and has no effect on your Unassisted status if you turn it
> on.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net>
> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 9:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
>
> In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating
> question,
> nor a rules or technical question.
>
> cain K1TN
>
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