[CQ-Contest] Chiming in -- SO2R

K0HB k-zero-hb at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 3 11:22:56 EST 2004


> [Original Message]
> From: dennis o'connor <k8do at mailblocks.com>
>
> Equipment does not the contestor make!  Every time I have Greg, K8GL, 
> over to the shack and he sits down at the key paddle, I hang around 
> with my mouth open (attracting flies as usual) as he casually pulls 3 
> (that's three complete calls) out of the pile up on one QRZ.. Has the 
> first two stand by, then works three of em backwards, before signing 
> his call and QRZ, for another three...  I am not incompetent at CW (not 
> even close to being in his league though) and his rate on the meter is 
> double what I can do at my best... Worse yet, once we go to S&P, he 
> makes a single pass across the band and on the next pass doesn't have 
> to listen for the call as he tunes as he 'knows' who is where, and like 
> a shark homes in on the new guy who just set up shop since the last 
> sweep...

That's UNFAIR!!!!!!!  We need a SEPARATE CATEGORY for guys like him.

<BSEG>

73, de Hans, K0HB








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