I don't have too many "pet peeves" in contesting, but one of them is the
station/operator who calls CQ and by the time I've said/sent my call once in
response, they're well into another CQ. And I have a short callsign! Are
people only listening for signals that will blow their front ends out? How
can you only listen for 2 seconds before calling CQ again?
I usually only bother about 4 times with that and then I go elsewhere
when doing S&P.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Charlie Gallo <Charlie@thegallos.com>wrote:
>
> On 10/28/2009 James Thresher wrote:
>
> ...snip...
>
> > Just remember that if you can't hear them, you can't work them. So
> > I would strongly suggest you look at your antenna's first, even if
> > the improvements are only small given your restrictions.
>
> > 73 James 2E0YOM
>
> >...snip...
>
> I'm in a similar situation to Tim (although there are some antenna
> improvements that might happen). One of the seriously frustrating parts of
> CQWW when running low power, and low short antennas is you CAN hear a lot of
> folks, but they CAN'T hear YOU. Every Q takes 2-3 minutes to get a quiet
> spot, and a lot of the time (certain operators), they are calling CQ over,
> and over, and over, with 5-10 second breaks (just long enough to throw a
> call sign) and if you don't come in loud enough, they never even try to come
> back
>
>
> --
> 73 de KG2V
>
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>
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