Similar experience here doing a SB 20. An S51 came on top of the
frequency I had been running on for over 30 minutes. It was a very loud
S51 so I decided to let him have the frequency. I started moving up the
band and in a minute stumbled across a station in Thailand. The pileup
was big but with one call he was in the log for a multiplier. If it
hadn't of been for the S51 I probably would not have found and worked
Thailand during the contest. The moral of my tale is that sometimes a
bad experience can become a good one.
73 Larry L
W0ETC in IA
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:49:06 -0700 Bill Turner <dezrat1242@ispwest.com>
writes:
> For some reason I decided to try a single band effort this year.
> Don't know why, just seemed like the thing to do. Had a
> good time, all except for one ugly frequency fight with a PI
> station... It was clearly my frequency, but he jumped in and
> started calling CQ. Asked him to please QSY (no response) and
> after
> about three or four minutes of dueling CQs, he gave up.
>
> This behavior is so rare I can't remember the last time it happened
> (well, actually I can) but thankfully nearly all RTTY ops are true
> gentlemen. I suspect it happened because he left to work another
> band
> and came back to find his old frequency occupied. If you leave
> long
> enough for me to call CQ three or four times with no response, it's
> no
> longer yours. If I call CQ once and I hear what sounds like
> another
> QSO, I'll QSY.
>
> And yes, I do listen first, but in a contest, not very long. :-)
>
> Picked up four new countries, now have 249 worked on RTTY.
>
> The details:
>
> 2004
> CQ World-Wide RTTY DX Contest
>
> CALL: W6WRT
> Single Operator
> One Radio
> Single Band: 20 meters
> High Power: 1500 watts
>
> QSOs Pts Zn DX: St
Multipliers
> Score
> 80m 0
> 40m: 0
> 20m: 754 1587 31 76 49
> 15m: 0
> 10m: 0
>
> Tot: 754 1587 31 76 49
> 156 247572
>
>
> Station Description
> Antenna: Cubex 4 element quad
> Transceiver: IC-746PRO
> Amplifier: Command HF-2500
> Operator: Bill, W6WRT
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