[CQ-Contest] QZB

[Alan Higbie]

The story is also retold by Jim Neiger (N6TJ) in early history of No Cal.
Contest Club:

https://www.nccc.cc/history.html

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:39 PM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> Very good Alan. Makes perfect sense, hi !
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> Thanks
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> Mike VE9AA
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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> *From:* Alan Higbie [mailto:alan.higbie at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* February 24, 2021 8:13 PM
> *To:* Mike Smith VE9AA
> *Cc:* CQ Contest
> *Subject:* Re: [CQ-Contest] QZB
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> K6VVA was nicknamed "The Locust" by Joe Reisert, W1JR (then WA6TGY or
> W2HQL/6).
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> As a young, growing boy, Rick would visit Joe's house and raid his
> refrigerator . . . eating everything in sight.  He went through it like a
> locust.
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> Story recently told during interview with W1JR on QSOToday podcast.
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> https://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/f/c/3/fc3b181570b63065/Episode_333_Joe_Reisert_W1JR_Final.mp3?c_id=92097665&cs_id=92097665&expiration=1614218197&hwt=a627ce1ca8505624efbe3c6c7bf1c63e
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> 73, Alan K0AV (ex: WA6PMK)
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> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:10 PM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
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> A few months ago I *thought* I had invented a way to tell your 100%
> zero-beat pileup to spread out in a non-split,
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> ie:normal contest situation.
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> I did some general searches for "QZB" yesterday and was quite surprised to
> see the same basic thing suggested by Rick, K6VVA "The Locust" (why is he
> called 'the locust' anyways?) ~10yrs ago back in Feb 2011, so I now don't
> claim that I invented it.shucks...hey, whatever,  I had never heard tell of
> it before---honest !...so now I am just PROMOTING IT.
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> I have added this to my signature on all my 3830 reports and to other
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> I post, which are relative to contesting.
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> I did use it this past weekend maybe 20 times and aprox 3(?) times it
> actually worked when being called by a swarm of weak dx stns all zero beat.
> Maybe I was just lucky?
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> All it takes is one guy in 5, 10 or 20 callers to know what 'QZB' means and
> he'll get through.  I actually had a near ESP dishwater weak 5W EU stn get
> through on the vy first call as he was a mere 40Hz off the much louder QRO
> pileup.
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> QZB:
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> Use "QZB" for your zero beat pileups which means, "you're all zero beat,
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> use ur XIT +/-"
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> CU (all of a sudden) in the next one.
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> Mike VE9AA
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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