[CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations

[Mike/Shelley Ritz]

Not acknowledging contacts is one pet peeve of mine as well! Some stations end the contact by moving on to the next contact, which seems rather rude and abrupt to me. 

The other thing I ran into were stations, especially in Central and South America that gave their callsigns super fast, without phonetics, so it was just one brief unintelligible word with a heavy accent. Maybe too much caffeine from the coffee down there was involved, I don't know..... ;-). 

Stations that don't identify often were another peeve. As a small gun "hunt and peck" station, having to sit and listen to somebody for 5 minutes work a pileup only to find that they were a already somebody you worked the day before was frustrating..... 

I also noticed several stations right at the band edges for long periods of time. There was a W3 station that seemed to make a home at the very, very bottom of 20M for hours on end. (Although admittedly I did get within 1.5 kHz of the top end of 20 to quickly work a LZ yesterday. I am sure the Official Observer notice is already in the mail!.....) 

What I did not hear much of was deliberate interference, and I was glad to see that. There was some sort of news radio talk program in the middle of 20M that I am sure nobody could hear with all the CQing going on top of them. What the heck was that doing there? 

Had a great time, and thanks to everybody involved. 

73' 
Mike, W7VO 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> 
To: "cq contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com> 
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 11:27:03 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [CQ-Contest] A couple of post-CQWW observations 

1. For the most part, running stations were identifying themselves 
often enough. 8P5A and PJ2T (and probably HC8A, I don't remember) were 
the standouts here. Way to go, guys! 

Pet peeve: 

QRZ <dx call> 
"AD1C" 
AD1C 59 <zone> 
"Thanks 5904" 
<dx call> 

So I did work him or not? Did he lose my puny signal in the 
QRM/QRM/QSB? Please say SOMETHING besides just your call. One 
station repeated the zone back to everyone. I liked that, especially 
since my zone doesn't match my callsign. 

2. There were OH SO MANY USA stations operating too close to 7125. 
You may have seen comments in my packet spots, or announces directed 
at me, or from me on packet. If you don't know how LSB works, get 
your license manual and study up! There was similar problem on the 
high end of 20, but it was not nearly as bad as the low end of 40. 

I saw some unenlightened comments on the DX cluster about K3EST 
"policing" the bands. Please visit http://www.cqww.com people! 

73 - Jim AD1C 

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us 
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