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Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes

To: "David Gilbert" <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>, <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes
From: "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:51:14 -0000
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You might want to go stand on a chair, Dave, and read that message again, because it went over your head the first time.

OF COURSE it's silly!

Next time I'll bracket it with indicators.

[SILLY]

....silly message here.....

[/SILLY]

73, de Hans, K0HB
--
"Just a boy and his radio"
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-----Original Message----- From: David Gilbert
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:50 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes


That's a rather silly extrapolation.  If I'm tuning the band and hear
somebody giving their callsign to someone else I don't need to hear it
again, and if I didn't hear it I can always ask for it. Works fine for
everyone unless the running station abuses the system.

Dave   AB7E



On 10/17/2012 9:26 AM, Radio K0HB wrote:
Why would anyone need to know your call. Just slows things down. We could suspend calls completely in contests, and think of how the scores would increase.

"QRZ"

"FYE NYE FOE"

"FYE NYE EIGHT QRZ"

"FYE NYE SIX"

"FYE NYE EIGHT QRZ"

But wait, note the redundancy there..... Everyone says "FYE NYE" so we can eliminate that delay also.

"QRZ"

"FOE"

"EIGHT QRZ"

"SIX"

"EIGHT QRZ"

And, oh, that "QRZ" is slowing me down.  Lets do this.

"EIGHT"

"FOE"

"EIGHT"

"SIX"

...silence.....

"ZED?"

"FIE"

"EIGHT"

"FOE"

"EIGHT"

"FUM"

"Again?"




73, de Hans, K0HB
--
"Just a boy and his radio"
--

-----Original Message----- From: Dave Farnsworth
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:23 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes

Thank you for NOT requiring both stations to ID.



When I have dozens (if not more) participants in my pile-up, who know who I
am, who have been waiting, who are hoping I will hear them next.

vs.

One impatient person who happens on the pile-up noise, may not even hear me
and wants immediate attention.



Which way am I better serving the contest frenzy? By going as fast as I can
to get everybody in the log?  Or, by slowing down my CW speed, giving my
callsign between each and every QSO and having to wait while the other
station sends my call?


73, Dave

Dave Farnsworth, WJ2O
www.WJ2O.com



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