[SECC] Claimed Score, K4TD, CQWW CW - 2005

[Dan/W4NTI]

I noticed the same thing about the pileups.  I found it necessary to use 
EXTENSIVELY the techniques I was taught by some Old Timers, some 40 years 
ago.  TIMING is EVERYTHING.   Too bad no one teaches that any more.

I did learn I could break some pileups with ease.  Others not possible till 
it culled out a bit.  TIMING and Persistence seems to be the way of today.

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Walker" <rnwalker at bellsouth.net>
To: <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: [SECC] Claimed Score, K4TD, CQWW CW - 2005


> CQ WW Score Summary Sheet
>
> CallSign Used :     K4TD
>
> Operator(s) :         K4TD
>
> Band :                  ALL
>
> Power :                HIGH
>
> Mode :                 CW
>
> Club/Team :          South East Contest Club
>
> Operating Time:    25.65 Hours
>
>
>
> Band   QSOs        Pts       Cty        ZN
>
> 3.5            49       137         45        13
>
> 7            347       874       118        35
>
> 14           394      1090       125        38
>
> 21           222        632       102        25
>
> 28             23         62         23        13
>
> Total       1035     2795       413      124
>
>
>
> Score :                                1,500,915
>
>
>
>
>
> I didn't get to devote as much time to this effort as I would have liked.
> My son got last minute leave from the Army and managed to get home in time
> for Thanksgiving.  He had to leave going back early on Saturday morning so 
> I
> didn't really get cranked up until around 1100 CST.
>
>
>
> I don't normally say too much in these emails, but I feel like I need to
> make one comment.  I was appalled at the operating habits of some of the
> contesters that I listened to in the pileups.  In most of the pileups I
> noticed that the operators would repeatedly send their calls over and over
> sometimes even while the DX station was transmitting.  That makes it
> especially difficult to complete the exchange with a weak DX station.  On
> numerous occasions, I was the station selected by the DX station from the
> pileup.  The DX would send his response, but I wouldn't know it since I
> couldn't hear him for the 599+20dB guys repeatedly sending their calls 
> over
> the top of his transmission.  This resulted in the DX having to retransmit
> when the QRM finally died down, which really slowed the whole process.  It
> reminded me of a study I did in designing a server for a communications
> intercept system many years ago using queuing theory.  The throughput of 
> the
> queue is clearly hampered when the server doesn't operate with maximum
> efficiency, which was the case in these pileups.  I'm surprised that these
> operators haven't been able to figure this out yet.  When I quit 
> contesting
> in the late 1970s the important thing was to develop a good sense of 
> timing
> as to when to send your call in a major pileup.  Also, it was considered
> poor operating practice to send your call more than two times in a big
> pileup.  It seems that the strategy has changed from good timing to simply
> trying to wear the DX station down by repeatedly sending ones own call 
> until
> the DX responds.
>
>
>
> On a completely different note, I spent some time listening to 40 meter
> pileups being run by NQ4I (and K4XS).  At times they were working EU
> stations that I couldn't even hear on my 4 element yagi at 140 feet.  My
> compliments to Rick on his station and to the guys operating it.  I was
> beginning to get the feeling that north Alabama might be an RF hole, and 
> now
> I think it might be true.  Guess I'm going to have to put up another yagi
> and see if a stack on 40 helps me hear any better.
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
>
> Rick
>
> K4TD
>
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