[CQ-Contest] Need advice re amps/setups for contesting

[RT Clay]

On the other hand: even if you are weak, be sure that 

a) you are on freq
b) you are sending at "contest" speed, really slow usually won't help.. Exception might be on 160m.

If a weak and slow station calls me far off freq, in certain circumstances I might just ignore the call: if the station is not a mult and the band is very busy. Why? In the process of pulling out a slow, weak, off-freq station I will very likely lose my cq frequency. If I am getting lots of responses to cq's anyway it may be better to just wait for another caller.

Tor
N4OGW

--- On Thu, 10/29/09, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Need advice re amps/setups for contesting
> To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:02 AM
> I don't have too many "pet peeves" in
> contesting, but one of them is the
> station/operator who calls CQ and by the time I've
> said/sent my call once in
> response, they're well into another CQ. And I have a short
> callsign! Are
> people only listening for signals that will blow their
> front ends out? How
> can you only listen for 2 seconds before calling CQ again?
> I usually only bother about 4 times with that and then I go
> elsewhere
> when doing S&P.
> 
> 73, Zack W9SZ
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Charlie Gallo <Charlie at thegallos.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 10/28/2009 James Thresher wrote:
> >
> > ...snip...
> >
> > > Just remember that if you can't hear them, you
> can't work them. So
> > > I would strongly suggest you look at your
> antenna's first, even if
> > > the improvements are only small given your
> restrictions.
> >
> > > 73 James 2E0YOM
> >
> > >...snip...
> >
> > I'm in a similar situation to Tim (although there are
> some antenna
> > improvements that might happen).  One of the
> seriously frustrating parts of
> > CQWW when running low power, and low short antennas is
> you CAN hear a lot of
> > folks, but they CAN'T hear YOU.  Every Q takes
> 2-3 minutes to get a quiet
> > spot, and a lot of the time (certain operators), they
> are calling CQ over,
> > and over, and over, with 5-10 second breaks (just long
> enough to throw a
> > call sign) and if you don't come in loud enough, they
> never even try to come
> > back
> >
> >
> > --
> > 73 de KG2V
> >
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> >
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> >
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> thorn-bearing assault
> > vegetation."
> >
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