[CQ-Contest] cqww etiquette

[David Kozinn, K2DBK]

I'm sure that the big m/m stations realize why people are calling (and like
others, I try to find someone from one of those, when they aren't busy, for
the mult), but I've run into people in the past who don't seem to realize
why a pop-gun S&P'er like myself might call. During one of my first CQ WW
SSB contests, while S&P'ing,I had someone tell me "this is a DX contest, why
are you calling?!?!" and went on to call CQ. I suppose it would be amusing
if he never logged those zero-pointer mults at all. During the SSB contests,
I do try to make a point (particularly if the other station wasn't busy to
begin with, which is almost always the case) to says "thanks for the mult"
and most of the guys now will say "no problem". It's a bit harder to toss
that in on CW (where's that macro key?).

73,
     David, K2DBK
     k2dbk.com
     k2dbk.blogspot.com


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:11 PM,  <ka3qlf at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > When is a good time to work fellow US hams for country/zone mult during
> cqww..early, late, middle, during a slow run, or does it really matter? Is
> this a taboo thing, and generally isn't done?
>
> I try to wait until Sunday, but don't wait too long.  One local
> station I needed to work for zone credit on 10m was missing-in-action
> when I tried to find them.  I finally had to work their 15m station
> and let the operator know I was looking for them on 10m.
>
> Also, there may be better times to find certain zones, depending on
> the time of the day and propagation.  Zone 3 is hard for me on 15m
> from Colorado.  During CQWW Phone, I found a loud VE7 calling CQ
> Sunday afternoon out of the blue, but this weekend, I ended up working
> a much weaker station from 7-land when he was the *first* and only one
> I heard!
>
> NEVER do it when the station you want to work has a high rate.  I use
> the three CQ rule -- wait for three unanswered CQs before calling.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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