[CQ-Contest] BOGUS RATES: Pot calling the kettle black?

[Zack Widup]

By the way, did any of you hear the HUGE pileup of JA's on a VP9 at
the very bottom of the 10 meter band on Sunday afternoon? The JA's
were calling in a 5 to 10 kHz wide segment. I was amazed.

73, Zack W9SZ


On 11/7/11, kr2q at optimum.net <kr2q at optimum.net> wrote:
> Are you kidding me?
>
> By far,the biggest "fault," (if you want to use such a term) is on the part
> of the callers,
> not the guy running the pileup.
>
> How many guys, who are tuning across the band and run into a pileup,
> actually give the
> call of the guy are calling?  5%?
>
> Pileup guy:  Contest, 1M1A
> Caller: KR2Q
> Pileup guy: KR2Q 5941
> KR2Q: 5905
>
> Pileup guy: 1M1A
> Caller: W5OV
> Pileup guy: W5OV 5941
> W5OV: 5904
>
> etc.
>
> I bet you dollars to donuts that for the VAST majority of contest pileups,
> THIS is how
> it goes.  The guy running the pileup DOES send his call but 95% (maybe 99%)
> of the
> callers never send Pileup Guy's call back at him.
>
> So if anything is "bogus" about the rates, it is due to the callers and not
> Pileup Guy.
>
> de Doug KR2Q
> Usual disclaimer:  The comments above are my own opinions and should not be
> construed
> in any way as representative of any contest committee with which I may be
> associated.
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