Hi Zack,
Having done a bit of contesting from outconus and at big stations, let me
say, DON"T TAKE IT PERSONALLY when they call another cq. These days, the
automatic CQ machine may be timed to kick in but more likely, especially on
ssb, Many of the other guys calling in may be 40 db over s9 causing the DX
station to put filters in the line or cut way back on his RF gain or even
throw in some antenuation so that only the guys over S9 and EXACTLY on
frequency are being heard. As the pileup thins out, they will eventually
turn the gain back up. Some guys like K3ZO have no filters in and great
ears and still hear everything.
73
Chet N4FX
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Zack Widup
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:02 AM
To: CQ Contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Need advice re amps/setups for contesting
I don't have too many "pet peeves" in contesting, but one of them is the
station/operator who calls CQ and by the time I've said/sent my call once in
response, they're well into another CQ. And I have a short callsign! Are
people only listening for signals that will blow their front ends out? How
can you only listen for 2 seconds before calling CQ again?
I usually only bother about 4 times with that and then I go elsewhere
when doing S&P.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Charlie Gallo
<Charlie@thegallos.com>wrote:
>
> On 10/28/2009 James Thresher wrote:
>
> ...snip...
>
> > Just remember that if you can't hear them, you can't work them. So
> > I would strongly suggest you look at your antenna's first, even if
> > the improvements are only small given your restrictions.
>
> > 73 James 2E0YOM
>
> >...snip...
>
> I'm in a similar situation to Tim (although there are some antenna
> improvements that might happen). One of the seriously frustrating parts
of
> CQWW when running low power, and low short antennas is you CAN hear a lot
of
> folks, but they CAN'T hear YOU. Every Q takes 2-3 minutes to get a quiet
> spot, and a lot of the time (certain operators), they are calling CQ over,
> and over, and over, with 5-10 second breaks (just long enough to throw a
> call sign) and if you don't come in loud enough, they never even try to
come
> back
>
>
> --
> 73 de KG2V
>
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>
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>
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> vegetation."
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