In yesterday's NAQP, I got several "pse qsy" phrases in the "tu" phase.
That was a first for me. Since I'm in California, I don't expect to be
needed as a mult, except in a few cases where I might be somewhat rare
since I'm in a rare county or section.
After getting several requests to qsy for what would be a dupe, I realized
that some multis are apparently now putting that qsy request in their
standard exchange macro - a way to advertise their other ops frequency.
So I learned to just ignore such "requests" as simply advertising noise.
TV has trained us well. The ad comes on, the eyes glaze over...
Perhaps this behavior is what has created your deer...?
73,
/Jack de K3FIV
On Feb 24, 2013 7:44 AM, <Georgek5kg@aol.com> wrote:
> Ok, let's open up a new thread...
>
> Something that I have noticed for years is that when trying to get another
> CW station to QSY to another band, typically because you need him as a
> mult, I will get no response to the "pse QSY to ...such-and-such band"
> request.
>
>
> In last week's ARRL DX CW contest from PJ4X, we tried repeatedly to get
> stations to move to other bands, but were more-often-than-not met with the
> "deer in headlights" blank stare! In comparing notes over 807's after the
> contest, we concluded that if the other station was loud and fast, there
> was a
> good chance that we would get a successful QSY. Otherwise, generally, no
> response at all.
>
> Can it be that so many stations are 1.) not really copying (or can't copy)
> the code, 2.) not interested or able to go to another band, or 3.) quickly
> moving off the frequency before we can even send the QSY request? With
> respect to the last point, we tried different canned QSY requests in our
> "TU"
> message. We tried "R PSE QSY TO ...", "TU PSE QSY TO ...", and bluntly
> "PSE QSY TO ..." My guess is that we got successful responses to less
> than
> 10% of the requests to QSY.
>
> Your thoughts please.
>
> 73, George, K5KG
>
> George Wagner, K5KG
> Sarasota, FL
> 941-400-1960 cell
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