[CQ-Contest] CQWW Assisted discrimination

[CYBERGURUES]

Hi all:

Most Contesters do not cheat. That's true.
Searching and Pouncing is better than packet, especially if the cluster you
use is on the other side of the planet. If you plan to go SOAB try using 2
radios. My father built for me a small box that automatically switches the
audio to the second rig when the PTT of rig A is activated. This allows you
to be listening all the time. There is little need to listen to your
transmitted signal, so you can concentrate 100% on what you receive. It
takes practice, but the overall result worth all the training. I'll use it
during next CQ WW DX CW.
Although Packet cheaters are hard to discover, single op. techniques now
give you the tools to beat them.
SO2R is even useful for single band efforts. You will work more mults and Qs
while they are busy watching the spots and trying to work and find what
others possibly with bigger antennas have worked. My point is that it is
faster to work what you hear rather than trying to work what others do.
Go SO2R!!!

73
Martin, LW9EUJ

PS: Goran, This was not my opinion months ago, but if you look at all the
available reading material on SO2R, etc. You'll realize, as I did, that
packeters have no longer advantage over real single ops.

----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Norton KB8XU <franknorton at home.com>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Assisted discrimination


>
> Hello all,
>
> No Goran,most people are not "cheating" as u put it, many simply don't use
> spotting of any kind (other than their own scanning and band
> mapping).  Many of us have found that packet spotting is a waste of
> resources and time.  We have found our time better utilized by searching
> diligently for "the WEAK ONES" that others blow by and these certainly
> never get posted on a spotting net of any type.  Another vital
> point-->there really are a vast number of locations that only have
electric
> service 12 hours per day little lone a satellite internet connection.  We
> really need a single op unassisted, high or low power segment---simply
> because that is the reality for a very large proportion of hams.  Some by
> choice, but many by the very nature of their QTH or station ability.
>
> You are correct Goran, there are some op's who cheat, but as long as you
> are honest and your performance is improving each contest---> you are
> winning!  The cheaters cheat themselves.  They also tend to get caught, or
> at least become infamous!  If a station is besting thier closest rival by
> 30%--> committees are going to take a very hard look at them, and so are
> the rest of us!
>
> I believe we should ENJOY each and every contest that we can enter. They
> are rare opportunities to test ourselves and our stations. Try and beat
> yourself each time and you are a winner!  I also believe that this method
> will allow you to win your section, country or whatever division you have
> as your goal.  If a cheater does make it all the way to the winners
circle,
> the "win" has no meaning and must have a very bitter taste....because the
> cheaters have fouled their eating place, if u are familiar with the
> saying.  "NEVER {FOUL} WHERE YOU EAT".
>
> Hang in there fellow contester!  Honesty will win out.
>
> As an acquaintance of mine used to sign all of his eMail--"CONTESTING IS!"
>
> 73 de KB8XU Frank
>
>
>
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