[CQ-Contest] S

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

People with smaller setups really enjoy the people that call fairly rare 
dx and then say oh we worked the other day, I just wanted to say hi and 
I was checking the propagation or some BS and taking away a chance for 
someone else to get a contact.   As Jim explained on 6m there is no 
guarantees to anything.  You can be 50 miles north or south of a station 
working the station you need and you can't hear it.  The magic band is 
quite challenging.

As for FT modes.  Many of will reset our dupe counters every year.  I 
can see this being an issue with that specific contest. There are no 
answers.  I really do not want to work the same bots 20 times a day or a 
week or even a year on the same band and mode.

W0MU

On 4/23/2025 3:07 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 4/22/2025 10:51 PM, Hans Brakob wrote:
>> Except during contests, why would you want to "avoid dupes"?
>>
>> Seriously, why?
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> Not everyone is into casual operation. Have you spent serious time on 
> 6M chasing rare US grids for the very tough FFMA Award? I've been 
> chasing it for 19 years, need 11 very rare ones where no one lives, 
> and at 83, don't live long enough to finish. It's like at DX 
> conventions and the last men standing need to be helped out of their 
> chairs. Openings to the grids I need may last only 5 minutes, needing 
> two or three hops of Es. VERY well equipped expeditions have gone to 
> these places for a week or two and I haven't had an opening. For one 
> that it worked, it was in the last hour of a week-long stand. This was 
> to uninhabited parts of ME, and I'm near SF. I missed the other grid 
> where he was for a week. And I missed a similarly well equipped trip 
> to a grid on the VE border where no one lives. There have been years 
> when I've had NO openings to W1. This is what W0MU is talking about.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
>
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