[CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

[Randy Thompson]

Yes, this can be annoying. Especially when there are two or more callers about the same frequency and signal strength. 

These days, it seems there are many people working CW who don't really copy it that well.  They chase cluster spots and they kind of recognize their call. I am not complaining - we need more CW activity in contests! 

The goal of a contest is to work as many people as quickly as possible.  Sometimes that means working one of the other callers if you can get their whole call (doesn't hurt it they are louder, faster). Rather than try to teach someone a lesson in patience (a lesson they may not realize you are teaching), you just have to do the best you can to get some call and keep moving.

Randy K5ZD


-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+k5zd=outlook.com at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Peter Chamalian
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 5:11 PM
To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

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

 

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