[CQ-Contest] Zero Beat ? Not everybody does !,

[Jim McCook]

My belief is that the worst thing a caller can do in a contest is call 
the other station zero beat with him.  Not far away, but a reasonable 
distance either side of zero beat within a normal passband, depending on 
the contest participation. The exception, of course, would be if there 
were only one caller. Too often a spot is the zero beat frequency, so 
the caller clicks on that frequency and calls the DX, which creates 
chaos in a contest.  The best way to make the contact in a contest is to 
call _off_ zero beat, which helps other callers hear the DX.  It's hard 
for the DX when he can tell the callers are QRMing each other and can't 
hear him.  Jim