[CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

[John Geiger]

I especially call if he comes back to a partial call that has no letters in
common with my call-less competition that way!

73 John AF5CC

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 7:08 PM Steve Dyer W1SRD via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> Bill,
> Are you suggesting busting a pile up is a skill?
> I just click the spot, turn the amp up to 11 and continuously send my
> call sign. :-)
> 73 and CU in the pileups.
> Steve
> W1SRD
> > Sometimes.
> >
> > Other times it was hard to get heard. When that happened, it was better
> to run off and chase some other station and then come back when the pile
> had settled a bit.
> >
> > It was satisfying to occasionally beat out K3LR or W3LPL or other big
> M/M or SOA stations. I found that finesse was more important that brute
> strength.
> >
> >> On Aug 25, 2021, at 2:59 PM, ktfrog007 at aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, there are other similarly equipped stations out there competing
> with you.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'll bet you don't have to wait in line too long.
> >>
> >>
> >> 73,
> >>
> >> Ken, AB1J
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net>
> >> To: Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j at benshome.net>
> >> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> >> Sent: Wed, Aug 25, 2021 4:41 pm
> >> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.
> >>
> >> That was always my experience, even at the well-equipped station of
> NQ4I running full legal power and great antennas. You don’t always break
> through the pileups first.
> >>
> >>> On Aug 24, 2021, at 5:56 PM, Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j at benshome.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Given that there's going to be many people with the same idea in mind,
> I question that you can depend on 'knocking off stations instantly'.  You
> may very well click on the band map and find you're fighting to compete
> with a pileup of stations trying to do the same thing you are.  And if
> you're a little pistol, you can find yourself clicking from pileup to
> pileup that you can't easily break.
> >> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> >> Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
> >> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> >>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
> >>
> >>
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> > Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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> > Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> >             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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