>>For many years now I have had the XIT when I'm S&P and RIT on when I call CQ.
This is the Art of DX'ing... The thrill of the chase for the new one.
-2p
On 08/13/2012 05:48 PM, steve.root@culligan4water.com wrote:
> Tom,
>
> The idea isn't to move 1 or 2 Kc up the band but rather use an offset of
> 100-200 Hz. Spot chasers end up so close to zero beat with each other that
> you can't pick out a call. It happens to me here in commonplace Minnesota,
> imagine if you were in ZD8 and had 50-100 guys come back all close to zero
> beat. It doesn't help your rate, nobody is working anything until they spread
> out either in frequency or in time. Modern rigs are too accurate for their
> own good.
>
> For many years now I have had the XIT when I'm S&P and RIT on when I call CQ.
>
> 73 Steve K0SR
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom W8JI [mailto:w8ji@w8ji.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 10:13 AM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Reverse Beacon Network News - hopefully
> ofgeneralinterest
>
>> On 8/13/2012 7:20 AM, Martin , LU5DX wrote: >> I surely also understand
>> Jim's concerns about gigantic pile ups with >> all stations calling exactly
>> in the same frequency due to the RBN >> spots. I hope it is just a matter of
>> time till ops realize we need to >> start calling stations a little off the
>> spotted frequency. > I'm not a BIG contester, But have been contesting since
>> 1975, LONG > before any of this existed. And as soon as I heard a pileup
>> made by a > RBN spot I did notice how everyone was "Spot On" (pun intended)
>> > > And my first thought if I was to use this RBN network, I would at the >
>> same time turn on my XIT to slide a tad off the mess some. I thought >
>> everyone would do that and that this was not a unique thought. But I > guess
>> not. I wonder what other's think about that method. I think just tuning off
>> frequency by pushing a button to avoid a pileup center is poor operating
>> practice, because it can jam someone already using a frequency. I wonder if
>> this practice is co
m
> mon, and if it why when running on a frequency a long time, some random
> person will show up just sending his callsign over and over, outside the
> "pileup range". IMO a much better policy is to NOT spread out unless we
> listen first and make sure no one is using the frequency. Of course I dislike
> the whole notion of just saying "up", or saying "up" without a specific
> frequency split, because it causes needless QRM. Of course it is understood
> good manners go away in contests because it is competition, but I wonder if
> some consideration of others still exists in some form, and to what extent it
> reasonably exists. 73 Tom _______________________________________________
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