[CQ-Contest] Why?

[Steve Dyer]

It's amazing what moving the XIT a little does for breaking the spot 
pile-ups.
Sometimes it's us poor Left Coasters trying to break the Right Coast 
Wall :-).
Fun weekend.
73,
Steve
W1SRD
> Niccceee!
>
> It really is getting bad though like Pete says. More than once this weekend I was able to beat the big guns with my vertical and 500w ( until the brand new al-80b quit, then I beat them low power) by listening ( what a concept) and timing the call or by adjusting off freq by 100 hz.
>
> Basic operating skills have been/are being lost...most likely do (in my opinion) to all of the assisted tools out there. Point, click, call. It's that simple right???  No need to LISTEN.
>
> Marty
> W1MD
>
>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:46 AM, "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> It's to make up for all the times when they are running and don't send their
>> call.  Those times must be made up for in pileups to even out the karma.  :)
>>
>>
>> Randy, K5ZD
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>>> Peter Chamalian W1RM
>>> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 12:12 PM
>>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Why?
>>>
>>> Can someone explain to me why everyone calls all the time?  It doesn't
>>> matter if the other station is listening, sending an exchange, trying to
>>> get a call.  How many W# call when the DX sends N1?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is just getting worse and worse.  In CQWW I heard a DX station
>>> having to send the exchange three and 4 times in a row to get the pileup
>>> to slow to the point where the guy he's working could hear it!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pete, W1RM
>>>
>>>
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