[CQ-Contest] Busted Reversed Beacon Network spots

[David Aslin]

I decided to operate WPX CW in 'classic' mode - no skimmer, no spots, no SCP, 
no band map, nada. Just a boy, his radio, a paddle and a dipole.
As Toivo puts it "S&P the old fashioned way by turning the knob and listening".  
Even with the punk conditions (very few runs to be had with LP this year) this 
was huge fun and sharpened my S & P skills for the next one.
Result: 1000 Qs 589 mults for 1.84m and a likely new UK record/top 5 placing 
worldwide in SOSB 40m LP with 100W and a wire dipole.
Skill & experience trumps technology... allegedly ;-)
73
Dave G3WGN
M0C in WPX

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Hello,

I worked the CQ WPX CW from ES9C M/M team and I was doing almost exclusively
S&P. At first I was really frustrated with the abnormally high number of
busted spots  - at times more than half of the spots in the band map were
wrong - and eventually I didn't bother looking at the band map anymore but
did lots of S&P the old fashioned way by turning the knob and listening.
Then I realized that there might be a positive aspect to it. This could
actually separate again the real CW-operators from the
"click-and-shoot-no-listening" guys. Even though it must be frustrating to
the guys whose calls are busted like Steef here, it was quite amusing to
listen to well-known stations piling up on a fresh exotic spot. There'll be
lots of dupes and hundreds of logs full of busted calls.

73, Toivo, ES2RR

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Date:   Mon, 27 May 2013 09:07:32 +0200 
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This weekend I participated the WPX with a special call sing.
And that was a big mistake.

Because the skimmers don't know the call, they spotted me with a wrong call
more times than you can believe.
So there will be a lot of stations who logged me wrong.
Also I operate assisted, and usage the RBN to work multi's.

Bud this is also proved to be impossible.
Time and time and time, the spot was nos the station calling.
When you realize that there are plenty of opp's that don't even know CW,
there must be a million busted QSO's in the logs.

It is with great pleasure that this weekend make me realize that the RBN is
now way near a humane operator.
Let alone a good operator.


73


Steef PA3S (PA33A)

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