Alright! A good old pissing contest!
While the statement that if you don't use QSK you are a LID is a bit over
the top (OK, well over the top) I'm surprised too at the number of DXers
that don't use it. How do I know that many do not? They are the ones that
keep calling even after the DX came back to them....or worse someone else.
We have all been in pile ups where someone will send their call 3 or 4 times
without listening between them.
I've been using QSK for many years (had an Alpha 76PA that my then neighbor
N6ND modified for QSK) and I will NEVER go back. You may have heard me in
pile ups. With QSK I can continue, with pretty good confidence, to call the
station knowing I haven't heard them come back to anyone yet. Many give up
early which gives me a nice relatively clear shot. Do I mess up? Of
course...but not as much as I would if I couldn't copy in between CW
elements to hear if the DX has come back.
Now QSK offers little benefit if you are the station others are answering.
Who cares what happens during the time you pick out the station and call
them? Or during a contest where no one is going to continue to call once
you've answered a station. But for chasing DX either simplex or split I find
QSK to be a potent tool. One more way to beat the masses. So those of you
not yet using it, please continue that way. It gives me and the others using
QSK and edge.
Ron N4XD
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