cqww ssb
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ZF2JI will be active in the cqww ssb test on all bands..qsl via KG6AR
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>From James White <0006492564 at mcimail.com> Fri Sep 22 05:22:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564 at mcimail.com> (James White)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 23:22 EST
Subject: Unique is not a bad word
Message-ID: <93950922042239/0006492564PK5EM at MCIMAIL.COM>
OK you've sweat all Summer long to build that ultimate contesting station,
climbing the hill to the station, battling with wrestling yagis, working on
the computer software and the rig RX mods and all those things to make your
station nothing short of kickass!
The contest committee removes QSOs from your log that were uniques.
Turns out those lost contacts were from DX stations who were so impressed
with your loud signal at the bottom of the cycle that they called YOU - they
could hear YOU 'cuz had you worked harder to build your super contest
station ... YOU pushed the envelope by building a better station. The other
stations weren't quite as good as yours but YOU are penalized for being able
to make an impression on that DX contact that the also rans didn't.
I'd be pissed. Especially if it were a station on a remote Georgia hilltop
that I'd been building all Summer!
Busted calls are bad! Uniques are NOT proof of busted calls but CAN be a
smoking gun. If a log has a higher rate of uniques it is probably in need of
a closer look. Do not automatically penalize and condemn someone who found
an opportunity we all want - being the damn loudest signal into a population
center on the other side of the globe when our competition was not!
If you built the station to take advantage of a unique propagation
opportunity and did, and the other guys were on the wrong band and missed
out, heah - I thought this was why it was rewarding to build that station
and study operating and propagation!
zx
k1zx at mcimail.com
>From Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs at solaria.sol.net> Fri Sep 22 05:27:12 1995
From: Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs at solaria.sol.net> (Gary Schwartz)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 23:27:12 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Carribean trips still on??
Message-ID: <Pine.3.02.9509212312.A17431-a100000 at solaria.sol.net>
With all the hurricane activity in the Carribean this season I haven't
heard much about the status of CONTEST expeditions for the CQWW contests.
Are we going to have an even lower number of mults available this season?
Might be a good time to update the Contest DX-Pedition Registry...
73,
Gary K9GS
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>From Ray Rocker <rocker at datasync.com> Fri Sep 22 06:11:06 1995
From: Ray Rocker <rocker at datasync.com> (Ray Rocker)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:11:06 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Unique calls in log
Message-ID: <199509220511.AAA08684 at osh1.datasync.com>
Hmmm. One doesn't have to be a big gun to get unique calls, either.
Just being in a rare state or having a rare prefix can do it too.
Lots of WAS and WPX chasers out there, especially on phone. Not at all
uncommon for me to get REAL low serial #s in WPX, SS, etc. well into
contest, and they're usually followed up by QSL card saying "need ur QSL
for {WAS | WPX | USA-CA | whatever}".
Big gun contest DXpeditions probably get tons of those.
--
Ray Rocker ... WQ5L | "Life would be much easier if we could
Long Beach, Mississippi, USA | just look at the source code." - fortune
rocker at datasync.com | Yes, I do speak for my employer.
http://www.datasync.com/~rocker | Go Saints! Make it 13-3! (yeah, right)
>From Kari Lehtimaki <kle at olivetti.fi> Fri Sep 22 07:07:39 1995
From: Kari Lehtimaki <kle at olivetti.fi> (Kari Lehtimaki)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:07:39 +0300
Subject: SAC SSB comments needed
Message-ID: <9509220902.aa15715 at trixie.olivetti.fi>
I am posting this for our finnish contest manager
Ari Korhonen OH1EH.
Ari will be writing an article of SAC contest in his
next column. He is looking for any comments on the
SAC contest (coming outside of Scandianavian).
There are three topics:
1. Motivation to participate.
Why do you (dis)like the contest?
2. Band openings during the contest.
Propagation on 40 and 80 meters especially. Who was loud and when?
3. Post contest comments.
Feelings on Sunday at 1800 UTC.
Replies should be sent to:
kle at olivetti.fi
On the behalf of Ari,
Best 73's,
Kari, OH6LK.
>From N7AVK <lew at teleport.com> Fri Sep 22 07:48:25 1995
From: N7AVK <lew at teleport.com> (N7AVK)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 23:48:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Uniques
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950921225330.7597A-100000 at linda.teleport.com>
Two obvious situations come to mind when discussing disallowing unique
calls in a contest log.
1:I run a full size 3 element beam each on 40M & 80M. My QTH is in RF
free Zone 3...which means to obtain any serious number of Q's I have to work
every JA possible... which I try to do. I receive hundreds of JA cards
each season. Many of them note that I am the only Q that they made on
that band as they request a QSL confirmation. To disallow these unique
calls negates my efforts to build a serious station where I can receive
these weak signals that are non-copyable elsewhere. I wish to keep that
competitive edge. To remove the uniques, is tantamount to saying "Lets
level the playing field.. lets take those Q's away.. lets all run the
same antennae, radios. etc. etc. to make it a real contest!"
This strikes at the heart of "Why do we contest?" We all can't be
perched east of the Hudson River. We all can't run monobanders. We all
can't have the latest whiz-bang RF Box or computers. We all can't go to
equatorial warm places to contest.... in short we all can't be #1. So
why do we contest? I think because its fun. Sure its work.. but its an
area where we can define how we're going to compete, when we're going to
compete and to what importance we're going to attach to the competition.
If someone is going to attempt to disallow a whisper quiet Q I made with
a rookie JA op running 0.1 watt to his rain gutter... then they are
messing with my fun... and I will object.
2: Since there are significant "lulls" in the action here in RF free
Zone 3 due to the lack of sun activity, I will ask stations I hear
kibbitzing if they will exchange the contest exchange with me. Some
respond with eloquent condemnation of contesters in general and me in
particular. Most respond favorably and they go into my log. Perhaps to be
a unique, perhaps to become curious and seek out other Q's or perhaps to
tell their friends about our contest Q and pique their interest.
Again I don't believe it fair to take away these Q's. They are worked
for... they are fun...and they keep an operator awake.
Great thread... but my opinion is set on this one. Put my log through
the tightest scrutiny as the next contester... but don't uniformly
disallow unique Q's. T'aint fair to the contesting spirit.
73 and I remain, Lew
Lew Sayre N7AVK lew at teleport.com
P.O.Box 3110 Fax 503-391-2258
Salem, Oregon 97302 160M thru 1296MHz
>From John C. Goller" <0007490835 at mcimail.com Fri Sep 22 08:05:00 1995
From: John C. Goller" <0007490835 at mcimail.com (John C. Goller)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 02:05 EST
Subject: CQWW Scoring
Message-ID: <05950922070550/0007490835PJ1EM at MCIMAIL.COM>
After reading my "Low Band Monitor" Editorial re: CQWW SCORING SYSTEM
I think it really makes a lot of sense! It gives POINTS for DX! DX being
defined as Distance! Hope the CQ-Contest committee reads it and does it!
You guys on the East Coast are going to SCREAM when you read this one!
73 de JOHN K9UWA
k9uwa at mcimail.com
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