[CQ-Contest] Enough of this nonsense!!!

[Kelly Taylor]

Art,
With all due respect, you're overreacting.

You've never had a computer freeze or crash while trying to respond to
someone? Never had an issue crop up just after a CQ (sneezing fit, RFI,
blown fuse)? 

Ten seconds is not enough time to decide you can take over a frequency. If
it had been just an SO2R thing, he'd not have been gone for 30 seconds!
Guaranteed. SO2R doesn't work that way.

You simply didn't have enough information (you couldn't have) to form any
conclusions about why he didn't respond.

I've had situations myself where I've responded to someone (Stn1). Perhaps I
doubled with another station (Stn2), but while I'm listening to Stn1 try to
get through again, Stn2 calls again. I repeat the QRZ to Stn1, again,
perhaps doubling with Stn2. Then Stn2 starts calling CQ! That's liddish.

73, kelly
ve4xt


On 1/12/13 8:43 PM, "Art Boyars" <artboyars at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just now, second time in NAQP (only been on for 3 hrs), answer CQ of BIG
> GUN.  No reply.  I call again. And again.  No replies.
> 
> OK, he went off to other radio.  So I send "NA K3KU" a couple of times.
> Second time, the BIG GUN sends me his report!
> 
> Hey!  If you go off to the other radio for 30 seconds (even for 10
> seconds)  and leave people you can hear.. YOU HAVE GIVEN UP THE FREQ!
> 
> SO2R is admirably beyond my capabilities, but enough of this SO2R =
> M2 nonsense.  You don't own both feeq'ing freq's.
> 
> 73, Art K3KU
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