[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 238, Issue 27
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lstoskopf at cox.net
Mon Oct 31 15:03:58 EDT 2022
I had antenna failure so Sunday I put up an Inverted V from my hilltop location. I don't have Internet up there so use the dial. It's fun with a low signal to grab some poor guy calling CQ on and open frequency. Somewhere along the way I heard a weak Carib station make a contact and the comment that he wasn't making many contacts. The guy he was in QSO with said something like, Let Me Help, Then: Wait for them. And the frequency blew up before the guy even called CQ again! Is that Ham Radio. But it sure did ruin the Freq.
N0UU
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> 1. Re: Whither CQ WW? (Pete Smith N4ZR) 2. Re: Whither CQ WW? (David Gilbert) 3. Re: Whither CQ WW? (Richard DiDonna) 4. Whither CQ WW (jpescatore at aol.com mailto:jpescatore at aol.com ) 5. Re: Whither CQ WW? (Jim Brown) 6. Re: Whither CQ WW? (jimk8mr at aol.com mailto:jimk8mr at aol.com ) 7. Re: Whither CQ WW? (Pete Smith N4ZR) 8. Re: Whither CQ WW (Pete Smith N4ZR) 9. Re: Whither CQ WW? (Pete Smith N4ZR) 10. Re: Whither CQ WW (Michael Walker) 11. Whither CQQ WW? (James Cain)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 11:23:58 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr at gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com , "N1MMLoggerPlus at groups.io mailto:N1MMLoggerPlus at groups.io "
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> OK, I'll bite.? I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's
> station yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots being
> generated.? Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to be multi-2
> this year.? Up until 15 minutes ago, since they went to 15 and 10 at
> 1200Z, where you can assume they are running constantly, I count only 16
> spots (in 3+ hours).
>
> What is really sad is that somewhere around half the QSOs in CQWW are
> made using N1MM Logger+, which has a one-check Config menu option to
> "spot all S&P QSOs."? It costs you nothing, in effort or anything else,
> to enable this option, and has no effect on your Unassisted status if
> you turn it on.
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 9:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
>
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating question,
> > nor a rules or technical question.
> >
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:27:30 -0700
> From: David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com mailto:ab7echo at gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed at how
> many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any
> answers.? Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a
> similar boat.
>
> Dave? AB7E
>
>
> On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
>
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating question,
> > nor a rules or technical question.
> >
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
> >
> > >
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:18:49 -0400
> From: Richard DiDonna <richnn3w at gmail.com mailto:richnn3w at gmail.com >
> To: David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com mailto:ab7echo at gmail.com >
> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> Has nothing to do with how active the cq-contest reflector is. It has everything to do with how addicted to packet users have gotten. We could CQ until we were blue in the face and get 1 QSO a minute. Get spotted - bam. Rate went to 7 QSOs a minute.
>
> People have forgotten what that big, fat knob in the middle of their radios are supposed to do.
>
> 73
>
> Rich PJ2/NN3W
>
> > > On Oct 30, 2022, at 6:24 PM, David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com mailto:ab7echo at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed at how many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any answers. Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a similar boat.
> >
> > Dave AB7E
> >
> > > > > On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> > > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating question,
> > > nor a rules or technical question.
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
> > >
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:08:45 +0000 (UTC)
> From: jpescatore at aol.com mailto:jpescatore at aol.com
> To: "cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com " <cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com >
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW
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> I made 375 Qs, more than I've made in the SSB test in? many years. Activity was very high - you can see it in the scores reported in the first hour after the contest ended.
> There was plenty of spotting compared to every other phone contests. I don't think anyone has any obligation to turn spotting on.
> I'd answer Whither CQ WW with "up up and away" by all signs.
> 73 John K3TN
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:24:53 -0700
> From: Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com mailto:k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com >
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> On 10/30/2022 8:23 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>
> > > OK, I'll bite.? I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's
> > station yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots being
> > generated.? Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to be multi-2
> > this year.? Up until 15 minutes ago, since they went to 15 and 10 at
> > 1200Z, where you can assume they are running constantly, I count only 16
> > spots (in 3+ hours).
> >
> > > Since I don't live or contest from anywhere near the Atlantic Ocean, I'm
> not really in the contest, even if I enter it. I got on for an hour or
> two, sampling 10, then 15, then 20, figuring to give a few points to
> NCCC members at stations they travel to, or which they operate remotely
> in exotic places. I made a few QSOs, if for no other reason than to
> confirm that my antennas still work, but with zero motivation to
> compete, or to waste more time in it. It's been at least ten years since
> I was motivated to operate CQWW or an ARRL DX contest. I DO take all
> three WPX contests seriously, simply because, thanks to scoring rules, I
> AM in that contest.
>
> I was also surprised by the meager number of spots. I suspect that may
> be the result of getting used to automatic spotting by many skimmers,
> and getting out of the habit.
>
> I also took a few minutes to let a couple of Texas stations know that
> they were splattering badly each time I tuned past them. Both hadn't a
> clue about simple things -- when I mentioned that some rigs inherently
> generate lots of splatter (Yaesu sold a bunch in relatively recent
> history that do), he said he was running a 6700, and I observed that I'd
> heard that they were pretty clean, so asked about ALC to his Expert
> power amp. He said he wasn't using any ALC, but when I told him that he
> needed to set the amp's output power by reducing drive from his radio,
> he repeatedly told me that "power was set automatically."
>
> Sounds clueless to me.
>
> Surprisingly, while there were the usual number of stations with badly
> over-driven audio that made them hard to copy, particularly their CQ
> messages, I found only those two stations splattering. And there were
> the usual number of ego-driven lids who finished a QSO with "QRZ"
> instead of their call. I love K6XX's advice at the Contesting workshops
> that NCCC organizes at Visalia -- "QRZ is not your call," making the
> point that your call is ADVERTISING, QRZ is not. Have these lids never
> operated S&P? Do they not realize that any decent op who tunes them and
> doesn't hear them sign their call after every QSO is going to move on to
> someone who does? Given that most operators with a serious shot at
> winning are using a 2x1 or 1x2, why use QRZ, three syllables that say
> nothing in place of four (without phonetics) that ADVERTISE?
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC)
> From: jimk8mr at aol.com mailto:jimk8mr at aol.com
> To: "richnn3w at gmail.com mailto:richnn3w at gmail.com " <richnn3w at gmail.com mailto:richnn3w at gmail.com >, "ab7echo at gmail.com mailto:ab7echo at gmail.com "
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> We've also just gone through a period where any phone DX contest, with everyone squeezed into twenty meters, was of little interest for probably 90% of people with less than super stations.
>
> I was only on for the last hour, using an attic dipole, having just arrived at the Florida winter QTH, but from reports of ten meters being filled to 28900 or so, there was now room for people with modest stations to have fun. It may take a while for people to appreciate that, but we should have a few good years for phone DX contests coming up.
>
>
> 73? -? Jim? ?K8MR
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard DiDonna <richnn3w at gmail.com mailto:richnn3w at gmail.com >
> To: David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com mailto:ab7echo at gmail.com >
> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Sun, Oct 30, 2022 8:18 pm
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
>
> Has nothing to do with how active the cq-contest reflector is.? It has everything to do with how addicted to packet users have gotten.? We could CQ until we were blue in the face and get 1 QSO a minute.? Get spotted - bam.? Rate went to 7 QSOs a minute.
>
> People have forgotten what that big, fat knob in the middle of their radios are supposed to do.
>
> 73
>
> Rich PJ2/NN3W
>
> > > On Oct 30, 2022, at 6:24 PM, David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com mailto:ab7echo at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed at how many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any answers.? Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a similar boat.
> >
> > Dave? AB7E
> >
> > > > > On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
> > > In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> > > single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating question,
> > > nor a rules or technical question.
> > >
> > > cain K1TN
> > >
> > > > >
> > > ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:39:16 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr at gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
> Message-ID: <1cb7b5d9-bb74-a2e6-92b3-678cedb4ee8a at gmail.com mailto:1cb7b5d9-bb74-a2e6-92b3-678cedb4ee8a at gmail.com >
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> Well, yes and no.? I, for one, find the endless routine of Tune - Find -
> Check - Dupe - Tune Again to be excruciating.? This has nothing to do
> with the Contest reflector, and it may be strictly a function of my age,
> but I don't find unassisted S&P enjoyable any more.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 8:18 PM, Richard DiDonna wrote:
>
> > > Has nothing to do with how active the cq-contest reflector is. It has everything to do with how addicted to packet users have gotten. We could CQ until we were blue in the face and get 1 QSO a minute. Get spotted - bam. Rate went to 7 QSOs a minute.
> >
> > >
> > > People have forgotten what that big, fat knob in the middle of their radios are supposed to do.
> >
> > >
> > > 73
> >
> > >
> > > Rich PJ2/NN3W
> >
> > > >> On Oct 30, 2022, at 6:24 PM, David Gilbert<ab7echo at gmail.com mailto:ab7echo at gmail.com > wrote:
> >>
> >> ?
> >> I dabbled in the contest both nights (20m and 40m) and was amazed at how many relatively strong DX stations made call after call without any answers. Several of the big gun stateside stations seemed to be in a similar boat.
> >>
> >> Dave AB7E
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 10/30/2022 6:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
> >>> In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> >>> single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating question,
> >>> nor a rules or technical question.
> >>>
> >>> cain K1TN
> >> _______________________________________________
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:45:13 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr at gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW
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> I'm prepared to believe that other contests are even worse, but is 50
> spots in the last 12 hours (see DX Summit) for both running stations at
> W3LPL really a lot?? 4 an hour? My point was that if you have the
> capability, spotting all S&P QSOs helps everybody.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 9:08 PM, K3TN via CQ-Contest wrote:
>
> > > I made 375 Qs, more than I've made in the SSB test in? many years. Activity was very high - you can see it in the scores reported in the first hour after the contest ended.
> > There was plenty of spotting compared to every other phone contests. I don't think anyone has any obligation to turn spotting on.
> > I'd answer Whither CQ WW with "up up and away" by all signs.
> > 73 John K3TN
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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:51:11 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com mailto:pete.n4zr at gmail.com >
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW?
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> On 10/30/2022 11:24 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>
> > > I found only those two stations splattering. And there were the usual
> > number of ego-driven lids who finished a QSO with "QRZ" instead of
> > their call. I love K6XX's advice at the Contesting workshops that NCCC
> > organizes at Visalia -- "QRZ is not your call," making the point that
> > your call is ADVERTISING, QRZ is not.
> >
> > > I am a great fan of the Pregnant Pause, particularly if you have
> multiple callers.? Simply by pausing (literally a second) between
> "thanks" and your callsign, you can usefully pick up your rate. It's not
> that you don't send your call - I'd say at least every 3 QSOs - but that
> you just wait a sec to see if anyone jumps in.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at <" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:15:35 -0400
> From: Michael Walker <va3mw at portcredit.net mailto:va3mw at portcredit.net >
> To: jpescatore at aol.com mailto:jpescatore at aol.com
> Cc: "cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com " <cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com >
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW
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> The opposite was true for me. I did 1153 Q's
>
> Way too many American's still operating out of band
>
> *Band QSOs Zones Countries*
> ------------------------------
> 160: 67 4 4
> 80: 245 10 18
> 40: 201 18 45
> 20: 204 17 57
> 15: 200 24 79
> 10: 236 23 88
> ------------------------------
> Total: 1153 96 291
>
> Amazing all those trying to work Thailand on 7125 LSB on Saturday morning.
>
>
> When I mentioned on
> the air that all you Americans are out of band and you all stopped transmitting,
> it did make it easy for me to work him since all the QRM vaporized!
>
> It was actually pretty funny.
>
> This was the first time I have actually done Assisted in some time and
> my DX Cluster only receives spots from spotters that are in the NE US
> of A.
>
> It sort of was like doing FT8. CTRL-Up Arrow, call the next guy
>
> in the cluster by hitting F4 and then F2. CTRL-Up again, repeat. I
> would point the beam at Europe and work all the EU guys and walk
>
> the band.
>
>
> Get to the end of the band, spin the beam to the Carribean and then
> work my way down. Change bands from 15 to 10 and do it again.
>
> I very seldom spun the VFO since I almost never ran out of contacts
> for the time I was actually operating
>
> I only ran on 160, 80 and 40 and only for a bit.
>
> What would happen if we had a contest and ban the use of DX Clusters?
> Would people actually get on the air?
>
> I looked at my cluster (VA3MW-7) and we had over 20,000 spots on both
> days. On a normal day, we would have ~1-2000 on a weekday and about 5000 a
> day on a weekend. For CQWW we had 4 times as many spots.
>
> If you log onto a cluster, you can do a show/hf to get a summary.
>
> Maybe you weren't connected to a fully connected cluster or you had some
> filters running.
>
> Mike va3mw
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 9:22 AM K3TN via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com > wrote:
>
> > > I made 375 Qs, more than I've made in the SSB test in many years.
> > Activity was very high - you can see it in the scores reported in the first
> > hour after the contest ended.
> > There was plenty of spotting compared to every other phone contests. I
> > don't think anyone has any obligation to turn spotting on.
> > I'd answer Whither CQ WW with "up up and away" by all signs.
> > 73 John K3TN
> > _______________________________________________
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> > >
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> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:17:00 +0000
> From: James Cain <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com mailto:jamesdavidcain at gmail.com >
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com >
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQQ WW?
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> If you have a small, impotent station, and you are SMART, you tune around
> and call the stations you can hear.
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> Why on earth would somebody in, say, Europe, with a little station, need a
> spot for a beacon like W3LPL?
>
> cain K1TN
>
> OK, I'll bite. I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's station
> yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots being generated.
> Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to be multi-2 this year. Up
> until 15 minutes ago, since they went to 15 and 10 at 1200Z, where you can
> assume they are running constantly, I count only 16 spots (in 3+ hours).
>
> What is really sad is that somewhere around half the QSOs in CQWW are made
> using N1MM Logger+, which has a one-check Config menu option to "spot all
> S&P QSOs." It costs you nothing, in effort or anything else, to enable
> this option, and has no effect on your Unassisted status if you turn it on.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://reversebeacon.net> https://reversebeacon.net .
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 9:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
>
> In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating question,
> nor a rules or technical question.
>
> cain K1TN
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