[UK-CONTEST] Alligators & Rabbits in CQWW CW

[Dave Sergeant]

On 29 Nov 2005 at 14:43, Alex Allan wrote:

> Hi all
> I noticed a quite a few stations who don´t even allow enough time for
> their agc to recover between CQ calls.  Being in a temporary location
> I am limited by a really poor antenna and I am sure some of these
> stations would have heard me if only they cottoned on to the idea that
> you LISTEN between calls.  On the other hand, I am quite amazed at the
> Ears on some of the big American stations, I worked several on 20 &
> 40M with my 20 Watts when they were marginal and they still heard me! 
> How do they do that? Alex
> 

Yes, and working QSK 5W on the K2 I was amazed to hear some stations 
CQing again immediately after I had sent the first dash in my 
call.... There was a huge difference in the copyability of stations - 
some of the big boys would complete the exchange first call with no 
hint of problems, whereas some louder ones would struggle for a 
couple of minutes to get my call (and then when I think they had it 
correct just send a TU (or even straight into CQ) without bothering 
to repeat it. I suspect there will be quite a few NIL entries in my 
log...

It was nice occasionally to get a comment like 'QRP? you're a great 
signal here'.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com