[CQ-Contest] SO2R Practice Problem

[Jim Jordan]

2-3 minutes is WAAAAY too long and anyone who returns after that long is 
stealing YOUR frequency. Good SO2R depends on good listening and timing so 
your time away is not much longer than listening normally for callers. If 
the other guy has a problem, you have to decide whether to lose the run 
frequency or the mult.

Same applies for single-radio jump from run to mult in band as we often have 
to do M/2. Prequalifying the mult in small steps between run qso's before 
you actually leave your frequency to call him minimizes the risk.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KB1H" <kb1h at ct.metrocast.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 4:29 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] SO2R Practice Problem


> During the recent ARRL DX CW contest the experience of someone obviously 
> using SO2R and trying to hold a frequency while going away for some other 
> QSO reared it's head on 40M.
>
> Finding what seemed to be a clear frequency at 7003.5 after QRLing many 
> times with no answer only to have a station come back after 2-3 minutes 
> starting to call CQ. OK, so I can understand how this can happen even 
> though we worked 2 or 3 stations before the US station returned. Should I 
> leave the frequency? Maybe.  Then he disappears for another 2-3 minutes. 
> We work some more DX. Then he comes back calling CQ again. The time gone 
> was just too long to expect a clear frequency when returning.
>
> I really can't remember what we finally did. I think we moved but it was 
> irritating for 15 minutes I am sure ruining both our rates. Next time we 
> just will have to see who wins.
>
> 73
> Dick - KB1H
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