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[CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations
From: "David J. Sourdis" <hk1kxa@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:31:35 -0500
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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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