[CQ-Contest] PSE QSY - Deer in headlights

[brian coyne]

When there is no response to my 'Pse QSY' I know I am dealing with  a screen reader or a casual contester for whom my 32 wpm is too fast. I slow down and repeat. Sometimes that works and I get an answer of some sort.. 

On another tack I often do just an hour here or there in one of the eu contests, usually just s&p. The probability is that I will be the only 5B stn around and I am  ready & willing to qsy. So I am calling guys who are well into 3 digit s/n's, exchanging a number in the low double digits. I am ripe for a mlt for an additional couple of bands but very, very few ever ask. Such a simple strategy missing from their game plan, opposit to the 'Frozen Deer in the headlights' they just have tunnel vision on running.  

73  Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z.




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 From: "Georgek5kg at aol.com" <Georgek5kg at aol.com>
To: CQ-Contest at CONTESTING.COM; fcg at kkn.net 
Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2013, 17:27
Subject: [CQ-Contest] PSE QSY - Deer in headlights
 
Ok, let's open up a new thread...

Something that I have noticed for years is that when trying to get another  
CW station to QSY to another band, typically because you need him as a 
mult, I  will get no response to the "pse QSY to ...such-and-such band" request. 


In last week's ARRL DX CW contest from PJ4X, we tried repeatedly to get  
stations to move to other bands, but were more-often-than-not met with the 
"deer  in headlights" blank stare!  In comparing notes over 807's after the  
contest, we concluded that if the other station was loud and fast, there was a 
good chance that we would get a successful QSY.  Otherwise, generally, no  
response at all.  

Can it be that so many stations are 1.) not really copying (or can't  copy) 
the code, 2.) not interested or able to go to another band, or  3.) quickly 
moving off the frequency before we can even send the QSY  request?  With 
respect to the last point, we tried different canned QSY  requests in our "TU" 
message.  We tried "R PSE QSY TO ...", "TU PSE QSY TO  ...", and bluntly 
"PSE QSY TO ..."  My guess is that we got  successful responses to less than 
10% of the requests to QSY.

Your thoughts please.

73, George, K5KG

George  Wagner, K5KG
Sarasota, FL 
941-400-1960  cell
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