I must say that I was surprised to read this in such a prominent position of the article and with as much attention. I don't hear it often and wouldn't even make my top 10 list of pet peeves for cont
I for one am somewhat baffled that the topic of operating split was brought up in the results writeup in the first place; from my experience the vast majority of operating in the contest is simplex s
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 Sig The Original Rolling Ball
Jukka, there is another option that will surely become more popular: DX QSYs and starts another smaller pileup. Agreed that finding another frequency is not often easy but it may result in a higher
With regard to the PJ4A split frequency operation on 10M mentioned by KU8E in his last post, the transmit frequency was above 28100, so it shouldn't have caused quite as much hogging of spectrum as i
"We" have the tools ? Who is this "we" ? You mean, those who operate in the multi-op or single-op assisted categories that have DX spotting and Skimmer access, right ? For the rest of us traditionali
Great answer Ward and this is exactly what we had to do from J6M. If we go spotted in EU or Russia the pile up that came was unbelievable. We tried to work a few but after the endless callers showed
.. ... Hi Ward (AX) .. Hi Tom (JI) and Hi Lloyd (LC), and also others Yes. there are other possible tactics han what I listed. On SSB this Ward's tactic produces results as long as nobody spots the p
Reasonable points as well. I am not a slouch at CW but I am far from one of the best. The pileups I saw from J6 were bigger than anything I recall from V47. I suspect J6 on CW was much more rare and
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this. So...don't do that!" So don't use normal computer generated CW! There are a number of things that prevent the Skimmer/RBN from spotting you - not sending "CQ", send
Steve Well yes and no. Firstly using split in contests is selfish, period. You are a big gun, well just suck it up, that's one of the downsides thereof. Do I understand however why some do it; yes I
I have to completely agree with Steve. A large pileup invariably covers more spectrum than a small one as callers tune slightly off frequency in order to be heard. If the DX station jumps to a new fr
Hey Doc, that's fine if you take other measures to avoid being spotted by a Skimmer, but if you're in fact being spotted on the RBN, doing that will simply cause you to be re-spotted much more often
I am a bit amazed on the how the main advantage of split operation is being neglected here. It is NOT for the DX to be able to manage his huge pile up better. This can surely be done simplex (like K4
This and other similar comments suggest we're debating the wrong issue. Is split operation the problem? Or is the problem the continuous callers -- those who continue to call the DX even when he's co
Is split operation the problem? Or is the problem the continuous callers -- those who continue to call the DX even when he's come back to someone else -- thus leading some operators to believe split
This and other similar comments suggest we're debating the wrong issue. Is split operation the problem? Or is the problem the continuous callers -- those who continue to call the DX even when he's co
Beyond that are we now making a difference between the low bands and 20-10? _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.c
Doug has it well in hand... simply a case of poor operators... over anxious to prove how good they really are.. while diligentlyproviding solid and unrefutable evidence to the contrary. IF the operat
So, you sit there on a nice running frequency that you've had for a long time running stations at a very good pace. As you spice your messages with CQ or TEST the RBN network has been a good helper t