[VHFcontesting] Manufactured QSO's

[Les Rayburn]

Just to be clear, I totally agree with Marshall. You either work them, 
or you don't. Especially true on VHF, where skeds are often the rule 
outside of contacts. I've tried for hours to work another station on 2M, 
222, or 432---knowing full well their entire callsign, grid square, beam 
heading, and frequency. Knowing in fact that they were listening hard 
for me.

Often you hear a bit of CW, or on WSJT you get a decode on a single 
sequence, then wait for hours for that next bit of data to come through. 
More often that not, it doesn't...and you feel disappointed, but resolve 
to try again another day. Neither station logs it as a QSO. VHF 
operators have a lot of integrity in that regard. You either work them, 
or you don't.

That's why Internet spotting on VHF is so important. It greatly reduces 
the amount of time that you spend listening to white noise, and looking 
for stations to work.

I dare say that HF contesting would have ceased to exist a  long time 
ago if the majority of operators had to spend hours searching for a 
single station to work.


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73,

Les Rayburn, N1LF
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Maylene, AL 35114
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