[CQ-Contest] QSY etiquette (NAQP)

[Julius Fazekas]

I'd agree with you Dick... calling CQ is worth the effort, you never know who was listening and following and you're there anyway... go for it, you could open a whole new front ;o)

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
TnQP http://www.tnqp.org/

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--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Dick Dievendorff <dieven at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Dick Dievendorff <dieven at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] QSY etiquette (NAQP)
> To: "'Art Boyars'" <art.boyars at verizon.net>, cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 8:37 AM
> When I move I tune quickly to see if the guy is already
> there so I can
> answer him.  Failing that, calling CQ seems like a
> productive thing to do.
> I want to be doing something that helps my score and I want
> to stay on the
> agreed frequency, and I want to advertise my presence so
> that the guy I'm
> moving with can find me, so calling CQ sounds like just the
> right thing to
> do.
> 
> I think you did just the right thing.
> 
> Dick, K6KR
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Art
> Boyars
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:55 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] QSY etiquette (NAQP)
> 
> I was fooling around back in NAQP CW.  Working 40M, N2MM
> asked me to QSY to
> 15M.  OK.  I moved up to the specified freq but I did not
> know the
> etiquette: who calls whom.  I guessed that since I was the
> askee then I
> could have the freq, so I started calling CQ.  (It worked,
> sort of.  K1ZZ
> came back pretty quick.  Then he worked N2MM, who was below
> ESP level here.)
> 
> Did I do right?  For Single OP askee, what is the proper
> procedure for this
> "pse work me on a new band" QSY?
> 
> 73, Art K3KU
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