[CQ-Contest] Phone Pileups

[David Hachadorian]

It helps to be loud, so you can be heard over the din of callers.

Use automated messages as much as possible - including the CQ, "59 
Charlie Tango", and "thank you K2 Delta." This will keep your ops from 
chit-chatting, and will save their voices.

Get a fragment of a call out of the din. For example, if you hear a call 
sign with a Lima at the end, just say "ending Lima?"  Try at least one 
more time to get the Lima before saying "nothing heard, QRZ."  Do not 
answer out-of-turn callers.

Use Supercheck Partial to help with call sign recognition. For example, 
if you hear JUI, you will know that it is most likely WB8JUI.

Acknowledge call sign corrections briefly. For example, if you initially 
called AA5HU, but it turns out to be AA5AU, just say "Alpha United" 
before pressing the "Thank you K2 Delta" button.

It should not be necessary to operate split.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL

Yuma, AZ

On 7/3/2021 5:23 AM, w1rm at comcast.net wrote:
> Many of you know me as a CW man.  Running a phone pileup is sort of a
> different kettle of fish.
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> I'm the manager for K2D in the 13 colonies event.  Many of the guys and gals
> who are staffing K2D have rather limited skills with a phone pileup and the
> ones we are encountering are brutal.
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> If you are an hold hand with phone pileups I would very much appreciate tips
> that I can pass on to my team.  Of course, we try things like running split
> (although that's a new experience for some) and going by numbers (how long
> do you stay on a number?).  Please pass on your tips and I'll share with my
> folks.
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> Thanks!
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> Pete Chamalian, W1RM
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> W1rm at comcast.net
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Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ