[CQ-Contest] SO2R technique

[w9wi at w9wi.com]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:45:12 -0400
  Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:
>realizing it.  One I encounter all the time is that the 
>other station is down off the low-side of my filter 
>response, approaching zero-beat, so his signal is hugely 
>attenuated.  On the higher bands, I may not know that 
>there's another station located 200 miles away who is 
>CQing on the same frequency, until I figure out that some 
>of the stations calling are out of sync. 

This is a good explanation as to why someone CQs after a 
QRL? request recieved an (unheard) affirmative reply.  It 
is not, however, an excuse for CQing without checking for 
occupancy at all.
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66