[CQ-Contest] How do you get better?

[David Pruett]

Peter,

If you don't want to wait, get louder...

To quote Gene Walsh, N2AA: "Loud is Good"


Peter Voelpel wrote:
> I also would like the big guns and rare multis to first work the weaker
> stations during their pileups not to make me wait ;-))
>
> 73
> Peter  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Shelby Summerville
> Sent: Freitag, 31. Oktober 2008 19:04
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How do you get better?
>
> Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote: "Work RTTY contests to learn SO2R skills.  In
> RTTY, the computer is doing the brain work and the QSOs have a fairly
> consistent timing and pattern.
> This frees you to practice the keyboarding skills of jumping between the two
> logging windows.  For even higher level of practice, try running on two
> bands at the same time (while never transmitting on two bands at once).  The
> goal is to do it so smoothly that no one listening can tell what you are
> doing!"
>
> Using any contest, to improve ones skills, at the inconvenience of another
> participant, IMHO, is  inconsiderate! I cannot count the number of lost
> contacts, both for me, and the station I was calling, because they chose to
> make me wait, while they were completing a contact on their other radio. 
> This is especially true with RTTY, as the exchange(s) usually take longer
> than any other mode? If you're calling CQ, you should be ready to answer
> any/all callers, not make them wait? When the aforementioned goal is
> attained, then, and only then is one completely ready for SO2R operation?
>
> C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW 
>
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