[CQ-Contest] Contesting is better without packet

[Gerry Hull]

Rather than blame spotting, why not teach/use effective operating
procedures?   Many casual operators, especially in SS, get on to try and get
a sweep only, and are not really interested in max QSOs.. (hence so many
U-class stations).  They love spotting.   In SS, we need to encourage
participation, and in that regard, spotting is a good thing.

On Sunday, there is plenty of spectrum.   If your in a rare section, for
gosh sake, operate split if the pileup gets too crazy.  Up 200Hz would be
enough.   Callers will quickly learn to spread out.   I'm sure lots of
casual people get frustrated by single-frequency pileups.

Tree, I was in a multiop this time, and we did the 1st 24 straight -- so I
got on with my call for a couple of hours just to run the pileup...  and it
was big!  I'd say only about 1% of the CQs were answered by stations calling
on the exact same frequency at the same time, so I had to ask QRZ?

73,

Gerry, W1VE  (@K2NNY this year)

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Tree <tree at kkn.net> wrote:

>
> Ah - the good old days...
>
> You could like tune around on a band and find multipliers that you could
> work with an average station.
>
> I noticed a couple of telling comments from "rare" stations in the CW SS:
>
> >From VO1MP:
>
> > Nice to hear the CW  music ...... still a lot of great ops qrv
> > did cq for a short while , but  my patience with the pileup was stretched
> a bit
> > so continued to S & P ,
>
> And VY1EI:
>
> > Sunday was better, when I got a run going on 15 meters and I got better
> at
> > handling pileups. There's no way I can handle 7 callers at once so I
> would QSY
> > after it was apparent that the spotters knew where I was.
>
> If these guys hadn't gotten the big packet pileups, they probably would
> have
> worked more guys!!
>
> I had one of these pileups at the end of the contest last year - when I
> used
> up my operating time and got on with a new callsign at the end of the
> contest.
> I had a MASSIVE pileup of guys calling me - and I wasn't even a multiplier.
>
> I had this problem once from TI1C in the CQ WW CW contest - where the DLs
> would pounce on me.  I could deal with two or three of them calling (they
> were all really weak on 15 meters) - but then 20 or 30 were calling after I
> got spotted - it was impossible to keep the rate up and I just went back to
> working Ws.
>
> 73 Tree N6TR / W7RM
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