[CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

[Peter Chamalian]

Rule number 1, work 'em as fast as you can
Rule number 2, work 'em as fast as you can
...

I get that of course but in the time it takes do go through this stupid
exercise 2 or 3 times, there might have been 2 or more contacts in the log
with all callers happy.

Ya can't win for trying...

Pete Chamalian, W1RM
W1rm at comcast.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Thompson <k5zd at outlook.com> 
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:47 PM
To: Peter Chamalian <W1RM at Comcast.net>; CQ-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

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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