[CQ-Contest] CQ tips and tricks - not

[Tonno Vahk]

My view on this:

The biggest problem is always with guys who start to call CQ without any QRL 
or SSB equivalent. They scroll the band, find an empty spot and there they 
go after 3 seconds! This is very common in EU. I don't remember having that 
problem often with US ...or JA:))

That is not related to SO2R. That usually happens when trying to pull out a 
weak one who gives you his call 3 times to enable you to get it. On 40m at 
night it is almost impossible to RX for more than 5-6 seconds when a weak 
guy is answering. 59+30 CQs will be all over you literally:)

I am very sorry to say that many of the "big" guys who land on your 
frequency don't send QRL. There are some who send once and then start CQ-ing 
in a few seconds. I may not be able to answer the first QRL for two reasons:
1. I am trying to pull out a weak one and I am almost there, can't transmit 
myself as he is just completing the call
2. I am 0,2 KHz away and I need the second QRL from the station to tune at 
him to answer. In SSB this is more important.

So I think 2 times QRL should be practice! I have QRL? under F7 in TR and is 
one of the most used keys.

Secondly about SO2R:

When I go to RADIO B for contact and stop CQing on RADIO A then I DO LISTEN 
TO MY RUN FREQUENCY! I always have my left ear on RADIO A. Thus even if I am 
away for 2 minutes this is still my frequency and should anybody sent QRL, I 
will say YES to them.

So do you guys agree that the frequency is mine till anybody asks QRL 
(preferrably twice) and gets no answer? So if he just says that the 
frequency has been empty for 2 minutes and no he can take it without asking 
he is wrong. THAT WAS MY RX FREQUENCY.

Thus I don't see any problem in SO2R vs non-SO2R operation if only guys 
would be polite to ask.

I am tempted to write down those callsigns in the next contest who don't ask 
and put up here.

73
tonno
es5tv

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jukka.klemola at nokia.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: 14. detsember 2004. a. 11:52
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] CQ tips and tricks - not


Season's greetings from Northern Europe.

...
> The view from the other side:
>
> #1.  Hearing a stopped CQ is not an invitation to try to
> steal time on a run
> frequency.  You have no idea what could be going on - by
> Sunday morning I am
> so tired I can barely remember to press F1.  It would be easy
> to press F1
> then ESC or kick the footswitch - voila, stopped CQ.

The view from my side:
When I stop transmitting CQ at OH0V, it means I SWITCH ON MY RECEIVER
to listen answers to my CQ.

I do not really expect the W2 and K4 stations to "unagreeably borrow"
my frequency.


Hear you when you answer the CQ.. sometimes I may answer your CQ.



Then a reality hit:
Sometimes the strong and allmighty SO3R stations are so full of great
thoughts they do not bother to wait me to stop my CQ.
They just colonize my frequency and continue like I never existed.

That really motivates me to find another frequency.

Some of those NGP (no good people) do send me a report if I answer
their CQ; that interpretes to me they did hear my original CQ but
did not really bother to listen S8 deep into the band as the message
was not interesting enough.


73 + XMAS,
Jukka OH6LI / OH0V / OH4A

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