[RSM] RSM Digest, Vol 14, Issue 7

[Cary Rubenfeld]

Darn it. I get blamed for everything!
+76F In Wickenberg. AZ
VE4EA/W7

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:00 AM <rsm-request at contesting.com> wrote:

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>    1. Fwd: [CQ-Contest] Be careful what you wish for (Kelly Taylor)
>    2. Re: Fwd: [CQ-Contest] Be careful what you wish for
>       (Richardson, Ed)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 08:50:41 -0600
> From: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt at mymts.net>
> To: rsm at contesting.com
> Subject: [RSM] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] Be careful what you wish for
> Message-ID: <3C04DC19-AECF-4F60-8DDC-64548FFDEC70 at mymts.net>
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> In case anyone didn?t see Pete?s message?
>
> May not have been one of us, of course.
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> 73, kelly, ve4xt
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> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Be careful what you wish for
> > Date: November 7, 2017 at 6:14:11 AM CST
> > To: sbloom at acsalaska.net, cq-contest at contesting.com
> >
> > I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of clicks this year - maybe it's
> just that the noise level had my AGC depressed, but I only heard one bad
> clicker - a VE4 (no, not you, Kelly).  I need to try to find him and tell
> him just how bad it was.
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
> > Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
> > at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> > spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> > For spots, please use your favorite
> > "retail" DX cluster.
> >
> > On 11/6/2017 9:17 PM, sbloom at acsalaska.net wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I was gonna say, I heard a little bit of everything in this one. 
> Automatic CQ loops with bug exchanges.  Slow but perfect straight key
> exchanges with (by our standards, meaning a CK in this century), and even a
> couple of "circa WB2EUF" chirpy signals that drifted through then out of my
> passband during the exchange.  Sometimes it doesn't seem like it, but
> the CWops and SKCC orgs are turning out a fair number of competent cw
> operators.
> >>
> >> It was interesting how many of the folks would resend the entire
> exchange, no matter what I asked for in a repeat.  I guess not
> everybody recognizes the NTS Radiogram format anymore :(
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Steve KL7SB
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 12:07:14 -0800, "Eric Gruff"  wrote:
> >>
> >> I agree with the part about it being easier to find open spots on the
> bandmap to run. It?s also a function of having panadapters that let you
> just point and click to the empty spots.
> >>
> >>
> >> However, there was no shortage of bug and straight key (or maybe they
> just soldered a phone plug onto a piece of zip cord and touched the wires
> together to send?) users who adopted the ?a dash should be about 1.2 times
> longer than a dot? when sending exchanges. I had one fellow who was S9+,
> but decided to send serial number 9 as ?009? with his straight key, and it
> took about five repeats to figure it out. I sent ?nr 9??, and he sent ?009?
> over and over, which also could have been ?090?, ?099?, ?090?, etc. This
> was hours into the contest, so I couldn?t rule out anything. I sure won?t
> be surprised if the contact comes up busted.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Then there were folks who when asked to repeat ?PREC?, sent everything
> but that. I got the entire exchange again twice, callsigns, ??? (probably a
> lot of folks who don?t know what precedence is), and silence. I guess
> that?s why SS is so challenging.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I still had a lot of fun. I could have won the whole thing if the sun
> hadn?t gotten into my eyes. ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Eric NC6K
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Message: 3
> >>
> >> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 18:23:32 -0500
> >>
> >> From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD"  >
> >>
> >> To: 'Radio K?HB'  >, "'CQ-Contest'"
> >>
> >>  >
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Be careful what you wish for
> >>
> >> Message-ID: <008501d3568d$18529880$48f7c980$@charter.net  >
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I was thinking the same thing. The bands just don't sound as crowded as
> I remember them 20+ years ago. We sure miss all those 1x3 calls that used
> bugs and had been doing SS forever.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Randy, K5ZD
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >>
> >> > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf
> >>
> >> > Of Radio K?HB
> >>
> >> > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2017 4:39 PM
> >>
> >> > To: CQ-Contest
> >>
> >> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Be careful what you wish for
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >> > Do you remember when you wished that it was easy to find a good
> clear
> >>
> >> > QRG to run in SSCW?
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >> > 73, de Hans, K?HB
> >>
> >> > "Just a boy and his radio"?
> >>
> >> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 14:57:24 +0000
> From: "Richardson, Ed" <ERichardson at winnipeg.ca>
> To: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt at mymts.net>, "rsm at contesting.com"
>         <rsm at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [RSM] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] Be careful what you wish for
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> Thanks Kelly
>
> I believe I know who he was referring to. I was going to mention it at the
> next meeting. The dots-dash ratio was way too small. I made a recording to
> show him.
>
> Ed
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