[CQ-Contest] Delayed Callers

[kq2m at kq2m.com]

Love it!  Fred that's a great description of my reasoning as well and 
EXACTLY what I do.

When someone calls and I give them a report and they don't respond once, 
twice, I have already lost callers in my pileup and valuable qso's that 
I could have made.  And then when that loud station calls again, they 
are qrming the rest of the pileup AGAIN and I lose more callers because 
they have called yet again and still did not work me and they get 
frustrated and qsy.

It's one thing if the 2 radio op got confused and made a mistake.  I 
certainly have made my share of mistakes; BUT, I NEVER called a DX 
station on THEIR freq. and then made them wait for me while I worked 
someone on another band.  That's exceptionally rude operating.

In my experience this problem seems limited to the Multi ops.  The SO2R 
guys, even if they are new at SO2R, seem to do a MUCH better job of 
responding quickly.

73

Bob, KQ2M


On 2021-12-02 14:19, Fred Kleber wrote:
> I do not have a lot of patience for SO2R / In-band, or whatever kind
> of stations that don’t come back after two calls.  If I have a pileup,
> my time and rate is just as valuable as the delayed caller’s.
> 
> My rule is two responses and if the delayed caller doesn’t come back,
> either they don’t copy me well or they are waiting for a QSO to finish
> on another radio.  Regardless, I then either CQ or QRZ.  Of course
> this strategy might be different for someone who is from a call area
> with an abundance of callers.
> 
> If the calling station still wants a QSO, they can call again, but if
> there are other callers, I will use a ‘mental band pass’ filter to
> give other callers priority, as it is highly likely I will get a
> quicker reply from a different station.  If the calling station is
> obviously a newer call, KF0XYZ,etc. then I will be more forgiving
> regarding a response.
> 
> On the flip side, I rarely call a station more than 3 times.  If the
> station is a mult, I then evaluate the mult vs. QSO ratio and decide
> how long to call.
> 
> YMMV.  Back to net….
> 
> 73,
> Fred, NP2X