[CQ-Contest] Rising IQ This Year

[Doug Renwick]

IMO the control of the pileup is with the 'DX' station.  A good operator
can maintain charge; for example someone like Nigel on cw.  I find it is
easier to control the pile on phone because verbal is usually the first
language for most of us.
Another option if the pileup goes berserk, all though not a perfect
solution, is to qsy and start over.
And Kelly, it is polite to trim your posts.

Doug

Life is not a spectator sport. 

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From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of ve4xt at mts.net
Sent: December 5, 2008 2:40 PM
To: David Wilburn; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rising IQ This Year

One of the MOST frustrating things I noticed at 6Y1V were all the times
I'd send

"DL4?"

and a hundred guys, none of whom had DL4 in their calls, or even
anything close, and were nowhere 
close to Germany, would pile on.

So we'd send "DL4?" again. Now, about 98 of these hundred guys kept
calling.

So we'd send "DL4?" again. Now, about 70 of these hundred guys kept
calling.

It was only after the fourth time sending "DL4?" that enough guys would
shut the hell up so we could 
hear. I didn't mind if someone whose call was "close" dumped in (maybe
something like K3DLV).

The advantage to this tack is that for a short while, the pileup would
become somewhat more 
responsive to selective responses. And it did seem to help keep the
pileup in check, at least for a bit. 
Americans seemed to be the most polite in this regard. Europeans, less
so.

73, kelly
ve4xt