[CQ-Contest] [RttyDigital] S

[Tyler Stewart]

Yes and it’s a real problem for contesters and those working on the DX Marathon award which resets every year.
For this reason, I try to avoid bulk QSOs on the contest bands for normal Qsos or change calls for contests
73, Ty K3MM


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On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 9:09 AM, Kermit Lehman via groups.io <ktfrog007=aol.com at groups.io> wrote:

 It's relatively easy for FT operators to avoid working stations they have worked before, using colors in WSJT-X or more capable filtering in its very popular clones. 
I participated in the recent RSGB FT4 Int'l Activity Day (all activity on regular FT4 bands) and there were stations I wasn't able to work even though they had strong signals and weren't busy. They just didn't answer my calls. I kept track of some of them and later checked my master log and found I had worked most of them before on FT4 band involved. I'd guess that these stations would also not answer my CQs.
I myself make use of these filtering techniques to avoid dupes in normal operation.
It's interesting to consider that the longer others and I operate and work each other, the less likely we all will have any of these dupe QSOs, in contests or otherwise. I don't have this problem in contests, because I'm using a new contest log so initially there are no dupes at all, but anyone using their normal log could recognize dupes and avoid them.
As for roping in new contesters, it depends how you call CQ. A plain CQ doesn't tell anyone you are contesting, while CQ TEST or some variant may discourage some from calling since they likely don't know the contest rules or what would be expected of them in a QSO.
73,Ken, AB1J
    On Monday, April 21, 2025 at 03:15:00 PM UTC, Hank Garretson via groups.io <w6sx.hank=gmail.com at groups.io> wrote:   

 

How did folks like the transparency between contesters and non-contesters with the daily default exchange?


Yes. Very good.
1. More folk to work
2. Maybe attract non's into contesting. Particularly, for next one, announce and invite on wsjt-x list. 

FT Exuberantly,
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