The problem I had during this contest is that when i'm trying to get a weak
station's call someone will send with a 599+ signal
-QTC?
That's annoying!
Ernesto Grueneberg - LU5CW (ex LU2BRG & LU6BEG)
<mailto:lu5cw@geocities.com>
LU5CW homepage <http://lu5cw.base.org>
LT1F homepage: <http://badpower.com.ar>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cq-contest@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-cq-contest@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Barry Kutner
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 3:36 PM
> To: Igor Sokolov
> Cc: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WAE & QTC's
> >
> I had plenty of stations ask for QTC the first day. Throughout the
> whole contest, I don't think I was ever behind more than 30 between QSO
> and QTC number. I find it annoying to be pestered for QTC when the run
> rate is very good, and even programmed F6 in CT to say NIL TU QRZ. It
> also amazes me how many ask for QTC in poor band condx. I only had
> about 20 QSOs on 80m cuz the band was very noisy. I had a few requests
> there for QTC (NIL). Even more amazing was one of the 7 scatter/just
> above the noise 10m QSOs asked me for QTC! (same answer, NIL).
> w2up@mindspring.com
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