Jere,
I am ashamed to admit I don't have NQ4I in my log books, I have to fix that the
next contest, adding you guys to the "Special" list of callsigns I have over
here when I am doing my Sunday driving on most of the recent contest, I will
look for the guys I know and help them out with Oklahoma state when they need
it. But none the less I do make a habit of working anyone who answer my CQ (I
am a 100 watt station and plan on staying that way for as possible more sport
in it IMHO). And I have seen alot more newer stations which is great since I am
just getting back into the hobby myself after several years of being out of it.
But all and all I think contesting is what has brought me back to the
microphone or key depending on what the fact may be.
Just out of curiosity someone was talking about the GQP being in April, does
the Columbus group run this event from a multi station? I will just be getting
to the area then and will most likely not have everything set up for a contest,
not to mention I will be on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee so wont be a
"True GA Station" at that time. Would make for a great way to get to know the
group out there. Well I am heading off to bed. Have a great one everyone and
see you down the log book..
73s
Jeremy
KD4LCR
From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Kt4zb at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 21:56
To: SECC at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SECC] US qso's
Hi all - Having worked a number of contests from NQ4I, the standard procedure
has always been to log all contacts, points or not. The fact that there are
500 zero point q's in the log shows that the run stations do just that.
When I'm working from Savannah and I need the US country of zone mult, I look
for any of the loud known contesters and respond with my exchange + "thanks for
the mult"... I also agree with when you are cqing and loud, "its the cost of
doing business. I was adding VE's to the log one night and for every VE I
worked, I got three US stations, most of whom didn't know what the contest was
about, but just happy to work someone. For those, just explained the rules and
encourged them to look for DX stations and have fun. Maybe some will become
casual contesters on a regular basis. Noted lots of year 2000 and up folks
during SS, so looks like there are some newer calls active.
Best to all - Jere, KT4ZB
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I think in Rick's case 500 Qs is pushing 10%.
And for the record, I don't think Rick and his guys are lids - unless they
don't log zero-pointers...I think he's as frustrated at working the
zero-pointers as I am about losing a mult because of not having a zero-point Q
logged. And it's extremely frustrating to have a pileup of S1 signals calling
you from EU when you've got a couple (especially slow!) loud zero-pointers
calling you.
--
Lee Hiers
"Have Dobro Will Travel"
....and traveling!
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From: "Gregg W6IZT" <w6izt at bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:27:59 -0500
To: 'Rick Dougherty NQ4I'<nq4i at contesting.com>; 'Hal Kennedy'<halken at
comcast.net>
Cc: 'Courtney Judd K4WI'<k4wi at earthlink.net>; 'ACG'<Contest at
alabamacontestgroup.org>; 'SECC'<secc at contesting.com>; 'Lee Hiers'<aa4ga at
contesting.com>
Subject: RE: [SECC] US qso's
Over 500 zero point Qs, that is less than 1 percent. Not so bad, as others
stated they were mults for the other guy. I had close to 2% zero point Qs and
I?m glad to give out the mult.
From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Rick Dougherty NQ4I
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:39 PM
To: Hal Kennedy
Cc: Courtney Judd K4WI; ACG; SECC; Lee Hiers
Subject: Re: [SECC] US qso's
Hi All..I am going to disagree with some of you..we had over 500 zero point
qso's in the log..at our average hourly rate of 160 per hour that is 3 + hours
that for all intensive purposes are wasted.....who knows how many qrp and low
power guys were calling and got frustrated and moved on because we had to work
the loud W"s...just my 0.02 worth from here..do I think they will change the
rules..never...but it gets me that most of these zero pointers think they are
helping out! Duh!
de Rick NQ4I
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Hal Kennedy <halken at comcast.net> wrote:
I could not agree more with Lee. I won't mention the call of the zone 5
station I worked that I was certain after listening carefully to the way
the exchange was handled I was not in their log. So I had to work
another one. This happens a lot in this contest for reasons Ill never
understand - why not log it if you took the time to work it?
Hal N4GG
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