My decisions are based on the run rate, easy of finding a new CQ freq
and if I need that mult and the rarity of the mult. If it is an "easy"
one then no I probably won't move.
When I was on from Montana I got requests all the time but rarely moved,
while in Colorado we rarely get asked to move as there are so many of us.
Some of it also depends on who is asking. The good ole boy network is
in effect yes and if I am on a team I will almost always more for a team
member.
There is no clear cut answer.
Mike W0MU
On 2/24/2013 8:17 PM, Gary Sutcliffe wrote:
A lot depends on how serious I am about the contest. If I am serious I
am less likely to QSY. Also I frequently do single band efforts.
Although you can make contacts on other bands and claim only one band,
it is only going to lose time. It also messes up the logging
program's scoring, making it more difficult to tell if I am making my
hourly goals.
The main reason is the time it takes to go there and the low success
rate of making the QSO. The reason the other station probably wants me
to try another band is because there has not been any propagation
between our areas on that band. There is likely none when asked to move.
I am more likely to QSY if a personal friend asks me or if it would be
new multiplier for me as well.
I noticed a higher than average number of requests to move in
yesterday's NAQP RTTY. I suspect that some mult-op stations just sent
the QSY request and the other station's frequency as a matter of
course. On RTTY the extra time would not be that bad and you would not
have to worry if the other station could handle the special request
at a higher than comfortable code speed. Since I was not serious about
that contest I did QSY a couple of times plus one time when a club
member asked. The time spend on these QSYs certainly cost me rate in
my S&P only effort especially considering I was only able to complete
about half of them
I would rarely consider leaving a run frequency.
73
Gary, W9XT
www.w9xt.com
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Georgek5kg@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 9:27 AM
To: CQ-Contest@CONTESTING.COM; fcg@kkn.net
Subject: [CQ-Contest] PSE QSY - Deer in headlights
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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