[SECC] US qso's

Tue Dec 1 20:28:35 PST 2009

Jere,

I am ashamed to admit I don't have NQ4I in my log books, I have to fix that the next contest, adding you guys to the "Special" list of callsigns I have over here when I am doing my Sunday driving on most of the recent contest, I will look for the guys I know and help them out with Oklahoma state when they need it. But none the less I do make a habit of working anyone who answer my CQ (I am a 100 watt station and plan on staying that way for as possible more sport in it IMHO). And I have seen alot more newer stations which is great since I am just getting back into the hobby myself after several years of being out of it. But all and all I think contesting is what has brought me back to the microphone or key depending on what the fact may be. 

Just out of curiosity someone was talking about the GQP being in April, does the Columbus group run this event from a multi station? I will just be getting to the area then and will most likely not have everything set up for a contest, not to mention I will be on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee so wont be a "True GA Station" at that time. Would make for a great way to get to know the group out there. Well I am heading off to bed. Have a great one everyone and see you down the log book..

73s

Jeremy
KD4LCR 

From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kt4zb at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 21:56
To: SECC at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SECC] US qso's

Hi all - Having worked a number of contests from NQ4I, the standard procedure has always been to log all contacts, points or not.  The fact that there are 500 zero point q's in the log shows that the run stations do just that.

When I'm working from Savannah and I need the US country of zone mult, I look for any of the loud known contesters and respond with my exchange + "thanks for the mult"...  I also agree with when you are cqing and loud, "its the cost of doing business.  I was adding VE's to the log one night and for every VE I worked, I got three US stations, most of whom didn't know what the contest was about, but just happy to work someone.  For those, just explained the rules and encourged them to look for DX stations and have fun.  Maybe some will become casual contesters on a regular basis. Noted lots of year 2000 and up folks during SS, so looks like there are some newer calls active.

Best to all - Jere, KT4ZB

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I think in Rick's case 500 Qs is pushing 10%.

And for the record, I don't think Rick and his guys are lids - unless they don't log zero-pointers...I think he's as frustrated at working the zero-pointers as I am about losing a mult because of not having a zero-point Q logged. And it's extremely frustrating to have a pileup of S1 signals calling you from EU when you've got a couple (especially slow!) loud zero-pointers calling you. 

--
Lee Hiers
"Have Dobro Will Travel"
....and traveling!

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From: "Gregg W6IZT" <w6izt at bellsouth.net> 

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:27:59 -0500

To: 'Rick Dougherty NQ4I'<nq4i at contesting.com>; 'Hal Kennedy'<halken at comcast.net>

Cc: 'Courtney Judd K4WI'<k4wi at earthlink.net>; 'ACG'<Contest at alabamacontestgroup.org>; 'SECC'<secc at contesting.com>; 'Lee Hiers'<aa4ga at contesting.com>

Subject: RE: [SECC] US qso's

Over 500 zero point Qs, that is less than 1 percent. Not so bad, as others stated they were mults for the other guy. I had close to 2% zero point Qs and I’m glad to give out the mult.

From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick Dougherty NQ4I
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:39 PM
To: Hal Kennedy
Cc: Courtney Judd K4WI; ACG; SECC; Lee Hiers
Subject: Re: [SECC] US qso's

Hi All..I am going to disagree with some of you..we had over 500 zero point qso's in the log..at our average hourly rate of 160 per hour that is 3 + hours that for all intensive purposes are wasted.....who knows how many qrp and low power guys were calling and got frustrated and moved on because we had to work the loud W"s...just my 0.02 worth from here..do I think they will change the rules..never...but it gets me that most of these zero pointers think they are helping out! Duh!

de Rick NQ4I

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Hal Kennedy <halken at comcast.net> wrote:

I could not agree more with Lee.  I won't mention the call of the zone 5
station I worked that I was certain after listening carefully to the way
the exchange was handled I was not in their log.  So I had to work
another one.  This happens a lot in this contest for reasons Ill never
understand - why not log it if you took the time to work it?

Hal N4GG

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