[CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

[K9MA]

That happens all the time, and I do the same as N4ZR does. Sometimes I 
get it wrong, and K9NA really WAS calling!

73,
Scott K9MA

On 4/19/2021 9:22 AM, N4ZR wrote:
> Pete's example is certainly terrible, and I have no problem with not 
> working any of the unsought callers in that case.  It's worth 
> mentioning, however, that not all pileup situations are so 
> unambiguous.  For example, what if the runner asks "A?" or "L?" and 
> I'm in the pileup,and conditions are tough, as they were this last 
> weekend.  If I hear the other caller, and he fits the request, that's 
> easy, but what if you don't hear anyone else, what to do?  My call is 
> short in CW, so I often hear the end of others' calls, but suppose the 
> running station is weak, but answers in sync with me.  Should I not 
> answer because of a missing or mis-heard dit?
>
> My point is simply that this is a judgment call every time.  Some are 
> easy and some aren't.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 4/19/2021 8:44 AM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
>> Sometimes I have just worked the ones calling out of order, but not log
>> them. They may never notice, but I feel I have delivered a little karma.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021, 21:03 K9MA <k9ma at sdellington.us> wrote:
>>
>>> Because, unfortunately, sometimes it works.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Scott K9MA
>>>
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> Scott Ellington
>>>
>>>   --- via iPad
>>>
>>>> On Apr 18, 2021, at 4:50 PM, Peter Chamalian <w1rm at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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Scott  K9MA

k9ma at sdellington.us