Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After) (Gedking at aol.com)

[Alex Goldenberg]

Just my own point of view ...
Most of us use good and complicate antennas on TB .Over wise - you'll never
get good result (mean - solid score in the contest )
I can imagine that you're trying to get in some station Beverage SIDE  ,
when you a thousand miles away and running low power (100W). 
Probably your fellow "chair sitter" have no idea about your existence ..
Why he's not switching to other BV ? It can be simple .
He wont do that . 
We choosing our own strategy going do contest . 
Me personally - have been keeping a frequency for an hour in my sunrise
continuously sending "CQ CONTEST" observing mostly my 300 deg BV ... 
The price of that - a couple of missed NA calls and 10 points lost ..maybe .

The surprise ( actually - the thing I was looking for ) - VR2ZQZ call and
QSO . New Zone, new country and 5000 !!! additional points to the score . 

People say : "Don't judge a book by its cover "

73! Alex VE7IRU 
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:40:18 EST
From: Gedking at aol.com
Subject: Re: Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After)
To: oz7yy at mail.dk, topband at contesting.com
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YUP those chair sitters I got on for  while. I thought I would pass  out a 
few points so I was just S&P with 100 wts. because I have a job here  at 
home now. and can't put in a lot of hours.
I  ran across some of them, I called that were calling CQ over and  over 
and didn't answer my call even though I could not hear anybody else calling

them and I would stand bye when I heard somebody calling them to see if they

got  an answer. nothing!!! I guess they had auto CQ on and either had to go

potty or maybe for Coffee or did they go to sleep with auto CQ on. these  
are the same ones who worry about rates?? and just have to hold that Freq at

all  costs. Alligators????, OH well!!
ED K8OT