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Re: [CQ-Contest] /QRP

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] /QRP
From: RT Clay <rt_clay@bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:17:51 -0700 (PDT)
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In about the same time taken to send "/QRP", you could have sent your whole 
call again, which would be much more useful.


Tor
N4OGW/5

--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Doug Smith <dougw9wi@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Doug Smith <dougw9wi@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] /QRP
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 10:18 PM
> IMHO, unfortunately, sometimes
> signing /QRP works.
> 
> (TX)      > CQ TEST W9YT
> (RX S9+20)< VE3CX
> (RX S9+20)< K7ZD
> (RX S9+20)< KU7Y
> (RX S7)   < W9WI/QRP
> 
> If the first three HP stations all clobber each other, what
> letters sneak out from under the mess & get
> copied?  Yep, it's "QRP".  My choice is to 
> ignore the /QRP, send "?", and hope I don't get another
> pile of identical S9+20 signals -- or come back to the QRP
> station.
> 
> Of course, if
> 
> (RX S9)   < WB9NME/4
> 
> is part of the pileup, the /QRP isn't going to help at
> all!
> 
> -- 
> 
> Doug Smith W9WI
> Pleasant View, TN  EM66
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