[CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed stay or g

[Barry W2UP]

Mike,

The padlocks only appear on the band of operation of your own station.  So
if a padlock is shown on 15m, the video was shot with the station on 15m.
>From my 40m station (whether run or S/P) padlocks appeared on each 40m
station, but none other on my screen.

The S/P station was running only 500W, so was not an overpowering, quick in
and out station.  It often took several calls to make the QSO, and at
times, the timing wasn't right, deferring to the run station, so the
station being called was not being called after every QSO.

Barry W2UP.

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:15 AM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> Tnx Barry. That is the video I saw. (and then couldn’t find it again). I
> also watched the previous one of how lockouts worked.
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> Perhaps it’s really not long enough to draw any real conclusions, but just
> as one example, I see the 2 x 40m stations alternately transmitting back
> and forth and neither one changes frequency(no padlocks on screen or
> lockouts appeared).  Now, to be fair, perhaps one is running and one is
> calling a difficult-to-get-through-to station on the other frequency(for at
> least 1:12seconds).  Without clear evidence, I cannot say.  One of those
> ops is you on 7.035MHz.
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> I see one picture of one padlock on the 15m station.
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> One 20m station appears stalled on one frequency, one is running and one
> is S&P…
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> So you can probably at least see why I asked the question.
>
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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:* Barry W2UP [mailto:w2up.co at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* June 4, 2021 1:48 PM
> *To:* Mike Smith VE9AA
> *Cc:* CQ-Contest Reflector
> *Subject:* Re: [CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed
> stay or g
>
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>
> Mike,
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> There's a link to a short youtube video in the 3830 writeup for WW1X that
> shows how the lockouts worked ( https://youtu.be/Os7s-Y_gngY ).  As one
> of the two 40m ops, the lockouts worked just as well as the hardware
> lockouts in an in-person M/M.  There was a learning curve to not
> interrupting the run station too severely with S&P QSOs, as it was very
> different from seeing a visual cue from the person sitting next to you.  By
> day 2, we seemed to be in better sync.
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> To the best of my knowledge, there were never 2 run stations on the same
> band.  I believe there were a few instances with more than one S&P station
> on a band, but not on 40.
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> Barry W2UP
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> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 5:59 AM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
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> Maybe nobody saw my question.
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> How are lockouts managed for 3-4 stations across the internet, to prevent
> multiple stations in a M/M-D from all transmitting at once on a single
> band?
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> My concern, which seems not to be anyone elses (at least not yet), is
> multiple stations on (say) 20m using a single callsign eating
>
> up band real estate.
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> At a single site, they have physical lockouts (and QRM on top of that), but
> across wide swaths of land in a single country
>
> there are no QRM issues and with Internet delays (however trivial), can/are
> lockouts employed?
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> Are multiple runners on a single band allowed in a M/M-D ?
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> Mike VE9AA
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
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