[CQ-Contest] Monitoring Big Guns during contest

[David Robbins K1TTT]

Thanks for the comments... you must not have listened to some of the ugly
runs in the 20m and 15m qrm during the day.  But yes, we do cq a lot.. even
when running 100/hr you end up having to cq regularly... often qso's come in
lumps, 3 or 4 or more deep in one minute then a minute or two of nothing
playing cq.  It is also true that you work more multipliers cqing than s&p,
some of those 'rare' countries also rarely call cq, they s&p and call us
much of the time.  The hardest part can be sitting there for hours calling
cq on 10m when the band sounds completely dead on the other vfo... the fun
part is when an it9 calls you out of the dead band for a double multiplier
Sunday morning, and then kc1xx comes by to tell you there is an it9 just up
the band and you can tell him that he called you already.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of N5IET Bob
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 19:38
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Monitoring Big Guns during contest
> 
> I would recommend to all new contesters to do the same
> sometime:
> 
> What great enlightenment.
> 
> During the contest I had finally figured out how and
> realized that I wanted to spend some contest time
> listening in on a few of the "Big Guns" during the
> contest.
> 
> To see what it would sound like at my shack to me through
> my speakers if I were on the way to a win.
> 
> As a result I searched for and found K1TTT, N1MM and a few
> others (I remembered these because I use their programs
> and their nodes), now I was able to actually hear them,
> not just hear about them, read their logs or read reports
> on them as I spent a lot of time doing last year. (Part of
> my goal setting for my station.)
> 
> I listened to their "runs" as they worked station after
> station and at times worked NO STATIONS but just called CQ
> in order to work somebody.
> 
> Especially on 80 and 40 late at night.
> 
> My viewpoint up until night before last was that "If I had
> a station setup like so and so does (tall antennas, amps,
> ect) then I wouldn't have to sit here a CQ a lot, I would
> just CQ once and the world would hear me and would be
> coming back to me one after the other, after the other
> until the contest was over and I would end up with a
> winning score."
> 
> I found out that is NOT TRUE they CQ a lot also. The
> difference is they continue to do so and do not become
> discouraged and stop.
> 
> Although it took time out of my contesting, I traded that
> time for what would otherwise have been break time for me
> anyway. I am glad I did.
> 
> I must also say that best of all I noticed that they were
> all courteous to *all* who made contacts with them and the
> whole spirit about what they were doing was different from
> most other contesters (including myself) and was
> fantastic, it exuded of Ham Radio Operators at their best.
> 
> It was a pleasure to hear them and what's more just
> listening to them has already affected my own operation in
> a positive way and the spirit in which I will conduct
> contests from now on as well.
> 
> I have also noticed in their "soap boxes" most of them
> almost always thank all who have made contacts with them.
> 
> These are true winners in all respects.
> 
>  No wonder they are "Big Guns".
> 
> 
>  73 fer nw,
> Bob N5IET
> 
> 10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177
> http://www.n5iet.com/
> Code may be taking a back seat for now,
> but the pioneering spirit that put the code
> there in the first place is out front of it all.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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