[UK-CONTEST] 'mycall' sending in contests

[G3SJJ]

But it wasn't necessarily the newbies Colin. There are many new young guys
around who are very good and can show us older geezers a clean pair of
heals. Also I was listening a lot over the weekend to the Russian Contest.
Lots of really slick operators and I saw reference to WWYC a couple of
times. It was all a pleasure to listen to, just didn't have time to get very
involved. Chris G3SJJ


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[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Colin G3PSM
Sent: 20 March 2005 19:41
To: Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 'mycall' sending in contests


Oops, sent this to Chris, SVL single addressee by mistake on Friday...

Chris (SVL) took the words right out of my mouth.   As far as I am aware
this contest is designed to bring in the new contest operators.   Okay
so it will affect your Q rate but is that really important in this
contest?   I spent some time in the very thinly occupied QRS corral
between 60 and 70 and my rates plummeted, but I had the satisfaction of
working G stations, both newcomers and old timers that you don't
normally hear in a contest.   Steve (ALG) said tongue in cheek perhaps,
"is it an option in a particular brand of contest logging software?".
I doubt if some of these stations were actually using computers.

Come on guys, give the newbies a chance and don't be so critical, you
were there once.

Just for information - 90 QSOs with 100W to a long wire about 135 foot
long.   The other half of the dipole broke off!

73

Colin, G3PSM

G3SVL wrote:

>>G3SJJ wrote:
>> > . .   several stations insisted on sending my call sign before giving
>>their report,
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>>GW4ALG wrote:
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>>>..... Is it an option in a particular brand of contest logging software?
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>I noticed this as well and perhaps there's a simple explanation. 80mCC is
>bringing lots of new calls into contesting, and I sense some are not
>frequent CW ops. So how does a newbie CW contester start a QSO? Probably
>the way he was taught/read in a book - and that says you send the other
>station's call then yours at each over.  If they keep going on contesting
>(and DX chasing for that matter) they'll get the hang of it and the
>'problem' will go away as they gain confidence. Frustrating as it might be,
>everyone they call suffers the same longer QSO.
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>Don ('XTT) is this addressed in your new operating guide?
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>73  Chris G3SVL
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