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

[HK3CW]

Hello Guy,

There's not really "a best way", all a contester has to do (as with all 
human relationships) is be polite.

If I feel like I'm being "corraled" into qsying I won't move an inch. 
Contesters often forget they are dealing with human beings and when I'm 
treated like a "multipler lump" I won't provide my multiplier. As simple as 
that.

73 de Rob HK3CW



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Molinari" <guy_molinari at hotmail.com>
To: <cwdude at gmail.com>; <k5go at cox.net>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Mult passing: is it okay to use?


>
> 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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