[CQ-Contest] QSY etiquette (NAQP)

[Robert Brandon]

I can think of several reasons that the requestor should call, and should
probably CQ.  That's what I do.

First, if the requestor is a M/2, they will almost certainly already be
calling CQ on the target frequency.

Second, the requestor is probably a full time competitor and probably has
the bigger signal.  So the requestor will probably be easier to find.

Third, as a requestor I wouldn't assume that the person making the move
wants to CQ.  He may be a rare mult and might generate an unruly pileup he
doesn't want to deal with.  

Finally, I find that it often takes a couple of minutes for someone to QSY,
presumably because their station isn't as automated as mine.  And in some
cases, especially on CW, I don't get a 100% warm fuzzy confirmation -- maybe
just an "R", which could mean "Yeah, I'll go up there and look for you after
I finish trolling this band and get another cup of coffee."

So as the requestor, I call short CQs, often back and forth between my two
radios/bands.  Often, I'm able to log a QSO or two before my "movee" shows
up.

Robert K5PI

-----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 3:55 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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