[CQ-Contest] Why?

[Joe]

or listen to the pile he is working,  where is he actually listening?, 
is he answering the people on the same freq all the time? or is he 
drifting up or down the pile some? see to listen and learn where he is 
listening and or moving and make the next expected place be the place 
you transmit. DUH? running a vertical and barefoot been doing this since 
1975 and 99% of the time I get them first call.

Joe WB9SBD
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On 11/25/2013 2:09 PM, ww3s at zoominternet.net wrote:
> shhhh!!!!! The cats out of the bag now.....amazing how many piles I broke with my 100w and XIT.....
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> From: Steve Dyer
> Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎November‎ ‎25‎, ‎2013 ‎12‎:‎41‎ ‎PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
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> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Marty
>> W1MD
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>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:46 AM, "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd at charter.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.  :)
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>>> Randy, K5ZD
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>>>> -----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?
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 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!
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>>>> Why?
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>>>> Pete, W1RM
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