[CQ-Contest] Wasting Time

[Jukka Klemola]

The Hot Shots want it all.
And they want it at once.
Not a second later.

The reality for the Hot Shot is, when there is a propagation opening,
the opening must be used more effectively than the competition can use
their openings.

The less serious guys has a little different approach.

The compromise is when they meet and exchange messages providing a
contacting experience and maybe a new country for the other and the
other gets some QSOpoints and maybe a multiplier.


The common ground is they have Fun.


Guys.. the flux is rising.
The K is bouncing.
Just two weeks till a 10m DX contest.

Dare to give 10m a chance?


73,
Jukka OH6LI



2010/12/3 Yuri <ve3dz at rigexpert.net>:
> This whole debate reminds me of the "motorist-pedestrian" argument.
> Who is more important?
> I bet if you were a "big gun" you would think a very different way!
> So, I guess it is always better to try to be in both party's shoes.
>
> 73 Yuri VE3DZ
>
>
>>>
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM, <al_lorona at ...> wrote:
>>
>>> As a little pistol I must admit that a lot of what I read here can be
>>> intimidating. For instance, for years I have read the opinion that goes
>>> like
>>> this: such-and-such behavior wastes valuable time in a contest. The
>>> behavior
>>> in question is usually saying "Please copy...", or sending the other
>>> station's call sign before sending your own exchange, or any number of
>>> things that irk contesters who have little patience for such "wasteful"
>>> practices.
>>>
>>> Most of these statements are highly ironic. To see why, tune in to the
>>> last
>>> few hours of any contest, when stations can go several minutes on a
>>> frequency calling CQ without an answer but keep pushing the button
>>> anyway.
>>> I'm in no way begruding their right to call CQ;  I'm saying that if you
>>> add
>>> up all of the precious seconds "wasted" by those of us that say "please"
>>> or
>>> "QSL" or whatever, that "wasted" time doesn't even come close to the time
>>> you spend sitting on a quiet frequency looking for those last few
>>> contacts.
>>>
>>> In other words, most stations are not time-limited in most contests, they
>>> are 'finding-another-Q' limited.
>>>
>>> You may argue that it is worse to lose seconds in the first hours of the
>>> contest when rates are higher, than in the last hours when rates drop.
>>> This
>>> argument may have merit, but remember that presumably everybody is being
>>> impacted more or less equally by the "wasters" and so all this does is
>>> change the point of peak rate (as well as the peak rate itself) for each
>>> participant. To me this is little different than everybody being affected
>>> by
>>> a solar flare. You may argue that if your goal is to set a new world
>>> record
>>> then any deviation from your precise idea of the perfect exchange has a
>>> greater negative impact and there I might agree with you, unless you find
>>> yourself pushing the button a lot at the end... in which case, maybe most
>>> contests are too long?
>>>
>>> I submit that most of the "wasted seconds" arguments are moot and belong
>>> on
>>> the Aargh! wiki page.
>>>
>>> Al  W6LX
>
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