This is more tangential to contesting, but remember as the DX station,
you control the pileup. If you want to run a pileup, you run a pileup.
If you want to talk 15 minutes to a station, you do that. Its your
choice. I remember working ZD7VC a couple weeks back on 10; we
exchanged the obligatory 5/9s and I said "thank you" and mentioned that
this was our first QSO in about 20 years. What followed was a good 10
to 12 minute one-on-one one contact. We had some attempted "break ins",
but Bruce ignored them.
Again, the DX station controls the pileup and if people are going to be
so rude as to interrupt, they run the risk of disappearing from the
log. I know one DX station who in his pre CQWW warm-ups did just that.
73 Rich NN3W
On 10/30/2013 2:51 PM, Tom Haavisto wrote:
Hi Charly
I think you bring up a good point that is being overlooked. I remember
hearing about a QSO from a friend who was chattting with a "rare" one some
years ago. To help put things in perspective for the rest of us, image the
following:
You get on the air. There is an instant pileup. Does not matter when, or
what band you get on, there is an instant pileup. As soon as you are
spotted, you are instant prey for the masses. The expectation is you will
start running without taking time for dinner, potty breaks, family time -
whatever. Your whole purpose is simply to "be there". If you don't get on
enough, something must be wrong.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com> wrote:
What I hear "foreign" operators say about contests..... By "foreign" I
just mean operators who are in fairly rare spots; of course they are
residents, not foreigners, where they live.
What I hear is that ops in these places 1. got their licenses for different
purposes than contesting or being DX, 2. want to use ham radio for other
non ham -type goals, and 3. do not enjoy trying to ride herd on a mass of
rude bad operators. They do not enjoy responding to QSL requests, paper or
computer data bases. They do enjoy an hour or two here and there around
their other daily duties of relaxed chat and no-pressure on-the-air
experiences.
There are likely a majority of hams that are very similar except those
other hams are in locations surrounded by many Type A contesters, and thus
their presence is not so much missed--although it would be great to have
more casual ops to work. The "rare" ops think of contests as just a wall
of noise, well beside the point of their goals.
Believe me, it is very easy to get sick of scads of people calling while
you are trying to work one. Many just opt out.
73, Charly HS0ZCW
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Chip and Janet Margelli <
margelli@socal.rr.com> wrote:
Several folks have remarked about how bad the Sunday afternoon dawg piles
on Africa were, especially on ten meters (C91KHN and 5H3EE were utterly
buried).
Surely there must be some connection to the fact that there are so few
African stations on these days. How many of the following did you put in
your log?
3B8, 3B9, 3C, 3X, 5A, 5N, 5R, 5T, 5U, 5V, 5X, 5Z, 6W, 7P, 7Q, 7X, 9G, 9J,
9L, 9Q, 9U, 9X, A2, C5, EL, FH, FR, S7, S9, ST, SU, TJ, TL, TN, TR, TT,
TU,
TY, TZ, VQ9, XT, and Z2. . .not to mention some of the rarer islands.
Where have all the Africans gone?
IARU--there are a lot of countries there that seem not to have any
activity. More pile-ups to distribute the stations more widely surely
would
ease the pressure on all.
And it would contribute to fewer flying objects on Sunday afternoon in
the
shacks of folks who are getting trampled. ;o)
73 de Chip K7JA
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