Topband: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest

[Shoppa, Tim]

I think Rick's recommendations go very much in the right direction for a garden variety contest QSO and can be tweaked as appropriate. In the ARRL 160 I was called by several guys who went through the N3QE N3QE DE HISCALL HISCALL 599 599 SECT SECT thing at 7 WPM and I lose the run frequency. I was glad to slow down for the slower code guys and when they keep it brief its no problem. Also no problem doing fills for DX. Those are snappy back and forth.  BUT slow speed plus unnecessary info is just too much.

Tim N3QE

----- Original Message -----
From: Tree [mailto:tree at kkn.net]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 06:54 PM
To: Jim F. <j_fitton at yahoo.com>
Cc: top Band <topband at contesting.com>; Richard (Rick) Karlquist <richard at karlquist.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest

> 3.  Send only 5NN <section>.  Do not send my call, BK, etc

I'll actually disagree with this.  Sending "my call" eliminates any
confusion about who is being worked.  In many situations on 160 - it is
very handy.  I once got called by W8JI after 10 minutes of CQing with no
answers.  I wasn't really sure he was working me or not since there were
lots of people on the band that I couldn't hear (like all of Europe).

Tree N6TR
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