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Re: [CQ-Contest] When is it OK to refuse to give out a QSO?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] When is it OK to refuse to give out a QSO?
From: W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:04:52 -0600
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I guess this is a good reason why you should record your contests.

What if any would be the penalty for working and not logging someone?

Log everything you work and don't look back. During the contest is not the time to preach or give a rules lecture, etc.

W0MU

On 10/26/2015 4:25 PM, Martin Pelt wrote:
Ditto. Work the dupes and work and work all callers. Last thing we want to
do is give a casual op or newbie to contesting a sour taste. Make it fun
its a game!

73, Martin N4UU

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Gerry Hull <gerry@yccc.org> wrote:

Agreed!

I bet I worked 100 zero pointers this weekend.  hmm... 100 x say, 5 seconds
per Q = 500 seconds or 8 minutes out of 48 hours.

Much Ado About Nothing.

Work everything that calls you.  Doing anything else is bad for your score
and for contesting!!

I'm sure everyone noticed that 20 was chock full all the way up to 350.
On Sunday, I was chasing an IS0, and he happened to be on 13.300.

Some Maritime Net guy came on and started asking for Net Control Ops???
There were 100s of guys calling the IS0..  The guy must of heard them.
He just exclaimed "Those %#$%#@$ contesters!!"

I was outta the pile very quickly, and no net had started.  No harm done.

73, Gerry W1VE  @K6ND this weekend.


On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com>
wrote:

My answer is Never Refuse.
That includes dups where it is faster to work them than to explain.
Includes rude who tell me to QSY.
Includes those moving in .5 kc away.
Includes those who have told me on Internet how stupid I am.
Just includes anyone I can hear.
Seems simple to me, Charly

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>
wrote:
Hi John

I have found that if you find someone that you are familiar with, that
helps if you explain it's a mult for you.  Last year I worked a zone 3
station for a double mult on 20 and they didn't log it and I got busted
for
a NIL as I never worked another W station in zone 3 because I thought I
had
it in the log..

I worked  W5PR this year on 10 close to the end and he couldn't believe
he
was a double mult for me.  He showed up green in my bandmap so I called
him
and thankfully, he went ahead and worked me and gave me the exchange.
I
was a zero point for him but he really helped me.  73
Tom W7WHY

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:03 AM, John W <xnewyorka@hotmail.com> wrote:

As I type this, I am sitting here fuming mad and deliberating on
whether
to keep plugging away in the CQWW SSB contest or just shut off the PC
and
radio.    Blessed with three young children (two toddlers and an
infant), I
have extremely little time for radio these days. So I am doing a VERY
part
time effort in the contest, yet still trying to maximize my score for
the
few hours I can put in.
It is Sunday morning. My wife is napping with the baby, and I have
gotten
the kids set up in front of the TV with their favorite show and I can
finally sit down at the radio without interruption.  I have made
only a
few
QSOs so far on 15m this weekend.  I just looked all over the band for
Zones
3 and 4.  I found K5TR calling CQ, waited until he had nobody else
calling
him, and made a quick call, saying "W2ID for the mult".  He quickly
replied
"W2ID 59 4", I gave the report and logged the qso and mult. QSO made
and
logged, all in less than 3 seconds. Thank you!
Tuned around some more, and some more, and finally found N7DD for
zone
3.
Excited, I waited a few minutes until he had no callers, and then
gave
a
quick call just as I did with K5TR.  Instead of replying with the
expected
"W2ID 59 3", he replied with "It's a little too late in the contest
for
that.  Go find a VE."   I was completely speechless, and couldn't
even
think of a reply before he called CQ again.  Then I replied with
"I'll
remember that in Sweepstakes."  He snarled back with "Yeah, you do
that."
So not only will I remember it in Sweepstakes, so will everybody else
who
reads it here.
Now I have spent enough time typing this that I could have made at
least
15 QSOs, which would have more than compensated for the lost
multiplier.
Wondering whether I should go try and find another zone 3, or just go
and
watch Bob the Builder with my kids instead. At least they will take a
few
seconds out of their favorite TV show to talk to me...
73 & GL all (except N7DD that is),
JohnW2ID

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