[3830] CQWW CW N2NL SOAB(A) LP

[Jim White, K4OJ]

agree about the packet - it is a great tool which has become bastardized...

On of the W1CW ops was puzzled why I felt it necessary to immediately 
jump on a packet spot in a half a heartbeat - by weekend's end I am sure 
it self explanatory.  They turn into a mess of unending callers... there 
is no strategy after a call has been spotted for a few minutes - it is 
chaos on that frequency, I know ZF2NT has asked if the is a way to turn 
off his callsign from the packet networks cause he hates the degraded 
quality of callers once the spot goes out.

I listened on 160 a little and FM5GU was absolutely booming - sounds 
like he may have been at a commercial broadcast sight!

K4OJ

webform at b4h.net wrote:

>                     CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
> 
> Call: N2NL
> Operator(s): N2NL
> Station: N2NL
> 
> Class: SOAB(A) LP
> QTH: FL
> Operating Time (hrs): 
> 
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>   160:    2     1        2
>    80:   29    12       26
>    40:  139    28       77
>    20:  133    33       97
>    15:  127    27       93
>    10:   91    24       54
> ------------------------------
> Total:  521   125      349  Total Score = 673,080
> 
> Club: Florida Contest Group
> 
> Comments:
> 
> FT1000MP, R-7 vertical, 33ft loaded vertical for 80, salt water
> 
> Packet sucks
> 
>    Radio time was very limited this weekend.  I'm preparing to leave in a couple
> days for a 2 month deployment which will keep me away from my family for the
> holidays - so family prevailed.  I decided to turn on packet to maximize the
> club score for the time I had.  
>    I'm beating a long dead horse, but there is a new group of contesters out
> there.  They are the "point-and-shoot" group who travel from packet-pile to
> packet-pile.  These guys will call over and over.  They believe they will call
> all the time so either they work him, or no one does.  They try to beat their
> packet-pileup partners by trying to be first to a new spot - they will call
> without listening to see who's on frequency - often stomping a QSO in progress. 
> They are in such a hurry not to be left behind by their packet buddies on the
> long packet-pileup highway that they don't listen to the call of the DX they
> think they are working.  A FS5 on 15m today was baffled why he had 10 dupes in a
> row - he was incorrectly spotted as a FS7.
>     I'm not talking about the K3WW's out there.  They know how to utilize packet
> to maximize their score.  They actually listen before they call.  I'm talking
> about the other bunch - and I'm sure everyone can name a few.
>     I project that these packet pileup chasers will start to hurt contesting, if
> it hasn't already happened.  I've seen it from both ends of the pileup.  As DX,
> it's frustrating to be called contstantly while trying to work someone.  I'm
> sure this turns many rare DX part-timers off completely since they don't want to
> be on the receiving end of the madness.  Part-time guys who are in it for the DX
> will be turned off at the craziness of the pileups they have to break.  
>     I'm sorry but I can't offer a solution.  A good start would be peer
> pressure.  Single out Joe at the next club meeting and let him know he was
> obnoxious last month.  Otherwise it's just going to get worse as the new blood
> doesn't know it any other way.
>     This will be the last time I ever use packet for a contest.  Looking back,
> my score probably would have been higher had I S&P'ed the entire weekend.  The
> time I wasted in pileups would have been better utilized by adding Q's to my
> total.
>     Other than that, it was a blast.  Conditions were extremely good.  Best ears
> go to 6Y0A and FM5GU for hearing my 100w on 160 with the 80m antenna.
>     Anyway, it's off to KP4 next week followed by 50 some days at sea.  I'll try
> to be QRV in the 10m contest as N2NL/MM - "R2" IS a mult - if you can hear my
> 100w/hamstick setup from the flight deck.
> 
> 73, Dave N2NL
> www.n2nl.net
> 
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