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@contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf
Of Kt4zb@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 21:56
To: SECC@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!
From: "Gregg W6IZT" <w6izt@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:27:59 -0500
To: 'Rick Dougherty NQ4I'<nq4i@contesting.com>; 'Hal
Kennedy'<halken@comcast.net>
Cc: 'Courtney Judd K4WI'<k4wi@earthlink.net>;
'ACG'<Contest@alabamacontestgroup.org>;
'SECC'<secc@contesting.com>; 'Lee Hiers'<aa4ga@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@contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces@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@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