[CQ-Contest] Contesting, exchanges/frequency

Robert Naumann n5nj at worldnet.att.net
Sun Mar 22 12:34:42 EST 1998


Stu is correct that sharing this sort of information is valuable.  I
believe, however, that the "gentleman's agreement" always was to do an
Announcement of these occurrences rather than a DX Spot.

Of course, as K1TTT points out, a band edge spot is easily identifiable, and
at least with CT easily removed from the Alt-A screen.

73,
N5NJ

P.S.  Hi Stu !
-----Original Message-----
From: KC1F <KC1F at prodigy.net>
To: Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs at solaria.sol.net>; cq-contest at contesting.com
<cq-contest at contesting.com>
Cc: k4oj at ij.net <k4oj at ij.net>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 1998 18:04
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesting, exchanges/frequency


>
>> What was even more annoying was the following type of spot:
>>
>> DX 14000 HS0XXX   Just called me
>>
>> This is REALLY useless since,
>>
>> A)  I have no idea what frequency the station posting the spot is even
>on.
>> B)  It does not convey ANY useful information.
>> C)  The possibility of this information resulting in me actually WORKING
>>     this multiplier is pretty small.
>>
>> It seemed to happen almost exclusively from large East coast M/S - M/M
>who
>> really should know better.
>
>     Hi all - I disagree with this, although these spots are obviously more
>valuable when you have established a running frequency, and I suppose it
>helps to be loud.  I can remember several occasions within the past year,
>while running Europe on 20 meters from New Hampshire, where a "14.000"
>spot for an Asian showed up, I turned the beam north, and the needed mult
>called me withing 2-3 minutes.  We might not have heard each other with the
>beam not turned that way.  I suspect this phenomenon is even more
>pronounced from a VERY loud station, where the DX may only be able to hear
>a few US stations on the band, and he will find you quickly.
>
>                73                    Stu   KC1F at prodigy.net
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