[CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

You have to be ROCK SOLID in your resolve not to work the others with
completely dissimilar calls.

 

In a semi-recent International contest where VE9 (NB) was a mult, I had a
very small pileup.(typical) and no

matter who I went back to , a certain station in France called.

Wouldn't matter it I went back to OK1ABC?, a F#XXXX called. and called and
called..even called

overtop of the QSO I was very much in progress with.

 

Eventually I told him (in CW) to "GO AWAY and come back later" (boy was he
mad ! ! )

 

Sorry, but if I give in to you, it makes it OK for anyone else to bully in
and send.

 

Mike VE9AA

 

OK so this weekend was the CQMM DX Contest.  A gentle affair run by the

CWJF, a Brazilian CW group.  No pressure, no big prizes.

 

 

So here I am calling CQ MM.  I get 4 or 5 callers, all jammed on top of each

other.  I manage to pull out two letters.  Let's say AW.  So, I send AW.

Three callers.  I can her the one AW in there and two non-AW callers.  So, I

send AW again.  Nope, three callers.  So, I just pause, hoping the AW caller

will call again.  Nope, nothing so I send AW a third time.  Guess what.  No

AW.  I gave up.

 

 

So, here's my question.  If your call doesn't have AW in it and you are

calling someone who replies AW, why do you keep calling?  It makes

absolutely no sense.  Even if I were P5RM, let me work the guy I want so I

can quickly move on to the next rather than slowing me down by calling like

that.

 

 

Ya know, I've been in this game for a heck of a long time.  Been there, done

that, got the t-shirt as it were (and the certificates and the plaques and

the records).  So why?

 

 

 

Pete Chamalian, W1RM

 

W1rm at comcast.net

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB