George;
Interesting question. I have noticed the same behavior recently - no
response at all to the request which I find a little surprising.
I have not reviewed all the responses in this thread so it is possible that
the following reason was mentioned but I did not see it. I think one
possible reason for not QSYing is because you may be already running on the
band you are being asked to QSY to. Although it is possible to abandon your
run frequency to do that, there may be a reluctance to do so - particularly
if you have a good run going on another frequency on that band.
I supposed you could respond back that you will QSY but proposed your run
frequency instead. You would have to have an F-Key set up for this
situation. Otherwise, it may just to complicated in the heat of battle.
Still, I agree that such a request to QSY should at least be met with a
"SRI" rather than just dead silence.
73,
Al, K0AD
In a message dated 2/24/2013 9:44:11 A.M. Central Standard Time,
Georgek5kg@aol.com writes:
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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