Hello, Mike
Understood. No hard feelings at all.
See you in CW CQWW, if you give it a shot
If you hear me at 40+wpm, it is that maybe the PC is high on coffee spillovers,
not me. ;-)
73
David
HK1KXA
EC5KXA
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:11:24 +0000
> From: micritz@comcast.net
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com; dxcolombia@elistas.net
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations
>
> I want to apologize to anybody who was offended by my comments. They were not
> meant to be disrespectful in any way towards anybody. The wink at the end was
> supposed to signify that a joke was being made, but apparently it was taken
> as something other than that. Again, I apologize to all our ham friends down
> south.
>
> Still, some stations giving their callsigns so fast and without phonetics so
> that they sounded like a single word was a problem, at least for me. Maybe it
> wasn't for others.
>
> Mike, W7VO
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David J. Sourdis" <hk1kxa@hotmail.com>
> To: "CQ contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>, "dx colombia"
> <dxcolombia@elistas.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:25:56 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations
>
>
> Where was the moderator when this display of ignorance and disrespect came
> on?
> The implications of the sentence marked in bold letters are clear and
> reinforced by the wink sign.
>
> "The other thing I ran into were stations, especially in Central and South
> America that gave their callsigns super fast,
> without phonetics, so it was just one brief unintelligible word with a heavy
> accent.
> Maybe too much caffeine from the coffee down there was involved, I don't
> know..... ;-). "
>
>
> David
> HK1KXA
> EC5KXA
>
> PS: "El ladrón juzga por su condición" .
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:57:30 +0000
> > From: micritz@comcast.net
> > To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations
> >
> > Not acknowledging contacts is one pet peeve of mine as well! Some stations
> > end the contact by moving on to the next contact, which seems rather rude
> > and abrupt to me.
> >
> > The other thing I ran into were stations, especially in Central and South
> > America that gave their callsigns super fast, without phonetics, so it was
> > just one brief unintelligible word with a heavy accent. Maybe too much
> > caffeine from the coffee down there was involved, I don't know..... ;-).
> >
> > Stations that don't identify often were another peeve. As a small gun "hunt
> > and peck" station, having to sit and listen to somebody for 5 minutes work
> > a pileup only to find that they were a already somebody you worked the day
> > before was frustrating.....
> >
> > I also noticed several stations right at the band edges for long periods of
> > time. There was a W3 station that seemed to make a home at the very, very
> > bottom of 20M for hours on end. (Although admittedly I did get within 1.5
> > kHz of the top end of 20 to quickly work a LZ yesterday. I am sure the
> > Official Observer notice is already in the mail!.....)
> >
> > What I did not hear much of was deliberate interference, and I was glad to
> > see that. There was some sort of news radio talk program in the middle of
> > 20M that I am sure nobody could hear with all the CQing going on top of
> > them. What the heck was that doing there?
> >
> > Had a great time, and thanks to everybody involved.
> >
> > 73'
> > Mike, W7VO
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
> > To: "cq contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 11:27:03 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations
> >
> > 1. For the most part, running stations were identifying themselves
> > often enough. 8P5A and PJ2T (and probably HC8A, I don't remember) were
> > the standouts here. Way to go, guys!
> >
> > Pet peeve:
> >
> > QRZ <dx call>
> > "AD1C"
> > AD1C 59 <zone>
> > "Thanks 5904"
> > <dx call>
> >
> > So I did work him or not? Did he lose my puny signal in the
> > QRM/QRM/QSB? Please say SOMETHING besides just your call. One
> > station repeated the zone back to everyone. I liked that, especially
> > since my zone doesn't match my callsign.
> >
> > 2. There were OH SO MANY USA stations operating too close to 7125.
> > You may have seen comments in my packet spots, or announces directed
> > at me, or from me on packet. If you don't know how LSB works, get
> > your license manual and study up! There was similar problem on the
> > high end of 20, but it was not nearly as bad as the low end of 40.
> >
> > I saw some unenlightened comments on the DX cluster about K3EST
> > "policing" the bands. Please visit http://www.cqww.com people!
> >
> > 73 - Jim AD1C
> >
> > --
> > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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