[RSM] RSM Digest, Vol 14, Issue 7

Tue Nov 7 16:31:55 EST 2017

Well if you were HOME, freezing, like the rest of us...

I didn't think a K3 could be made to click...
He must be thinking of someone else.

Tom - VE3CX

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Cary Rubenfeld <carys1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Darn it. I get blamed for everything!
> +76F In Wickenberg. AZ
> VE4EA/W7
>
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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>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=utf-8
> >
> > In case anyone didn?t see Pete?s message?
> >
> > May not have been one of us, of course.
> >
> > 73, kelly, ve4xt
> >
> > > 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  >
> > >>
> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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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