[CQ-Contest] Mult passing: is it okay to use?

[Guy Molinari]

Rob,
 
As a single op (and a multi), what is the best way to ask you to QSY?   Also, how would you like this to happen the best way for you should you decide to do so?
 
73,
Guy, N7ZG
 
> From: cwdude at gmail.com
> To: k5go at cox.net; frank.oppedijk at avista.nl
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:28:19 -0500
> CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Mult passing: is it okay to use?
> 
> Let me chip in from the casual contesters side. Often, I like to play in a 
> contest and although I appreciate a station asking me to QSY for a 
> multiplier, what most stations do is not "ask" they "order" you to QSY. Most 
> of the time, all I hear (in CW of course) is a spill of numbers that I 
> really don't even pay attention to and go my merry way.
> 
> Now if I'm on 15 because I like working people on 15, why would somebody 
> "order" me to "work them on another band" because "I need your multiplier". 
> This to me is "I care less about you, just give me your multiplier and get 
> out of my way". Now if somebody tells me "Please work us on other bands", I 
> will most certainly work them if/when I go to another band, and I will 
> provide my multiplier to help a fellow ham; but it just bothers me when I'm 
> ordered to qsy NOW!
> 
> Call me old fashion, but multiplier passing just doesn't work for me. I'm 
> very sure many casual contesters feel the same way I do.
> 
> My two cents worth,
> 
> 73 de HK3CW Rob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stan Stockton" <k5go at cox.net>
> To: "Frank R. Oppedijk" <frank.oppedijk at avista.nl>
> Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Mult passing: is it okay to use?
> 
> 
> > Frank,
> >
> > Multiplier passing, in every category of entry is a technique employed
> > by every winner. Every successful entry will ask a station to QSY to
> > another band when it is likely they will not work that country on
> > another band otherwise. Workin a new multiplier on one band and then
> > working the same guy in the next few minutes on three additional bands
> > is sometimes the memorable moment long after the contest is over.
> >
> > 73...Stan, K5GO
> >
> > Sent from Stan's IPhone
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:35 AM, "Frank R. Oppedijk" <frank.oppedijk at avista.nl
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi group,
> >>
> >> I'm a member of the PA6Z contest group and we're about to take up a
> >> technique that we haven't used earlier, namely that of multiplier
> >> passing. With this, I mean: asking a station on the band to QSY to
> >> another band, in order to also make a QSO on that other band.
> >>
> >> Voices went up saying that the technique of multiplier passing would
> >> be not allowed to use in some / most / all contests. Or at the least
> >> that it was a technique that would be frowned upon by the contest
> >> community.
> >>
> >> I am not aware of multiplier passing as being prohibited, or having a
> >> negative aura, and wonder if anyone of you has a definitive answer.
> >> And does the contest community frown upon the use of mult passing as
> >> a technique to increase the multiplier count?
> >>
> >> Thank you, 73,
> >>
> >> Frank PA4N
> >>
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> > Sent from Stan's IPhone
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:35 AM, "Frank R. Oppedijk" <frank.oppedijk at avista.nl
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi group,
> >>
> >> I'm a member of the PA6Z contest group and we're about to take up a
> >> technique that we haven't used earlier, namely that of multiplier
> >> passing. With this, I mean: asking a station on the band to QSY to
> >> another band, in order to also make a QSO on that other band.
> >>
> >> Voices went up saying that the technique of multiplier passing would
> >> be not allowed to use in some / most / all contests. Or at the least
> >> that it was a technique that would be frowned upon by the contest
> >> community.
> >>
> >> I am not aware of multiplier passing as being prohibited, or having a
> >> negative aura, and wonder if anyone of you has a definitive answer.
> >> And does the contest community frown upon the use of mult passing as
> >> a technique to increase the multiplier count?
> >>
> >> Thank you, 73,
> >>
> >> Frank PA4N
> >>
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