Yup seems like a perfect time to penalize the click and shoot folk!
Place your notch filter on the clicking crowd, and work everyone else.
Sounds good to me.
Joe WB9SBD
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On 8/27/2012 10:22 PM, Jeff Clarke wrote:
> I have noticed during our past couple PJ4A CQWW CW operations the pileups
> have seemed to get so unruly that we sometimes had to listen split to keep up
> the rate. I remember last year one particular EU pileup on 10 meters that so
> many stations were calling zero beat on the same frequency that the CW
> signals mixed together and the pileup sounded like a steady tone. My guess is
> many of those stations were pointing a clicking on spots on the cluster . I
> consider myself to be a decent CW operator and ended up trying to listen on
> the outer edge of the pileup to pickup calls but that didn’t help much.
> Eventually I had to resort to listen 2 UP and that helped a great deal. I
> could see some rare station with a marginal signal maybe giving up in
> frustration on a pileup because of people calling continuously without
> listening.
>
>
> Jeff KU8E
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