[VHFcontesting] Manufactured QSO's

[Walt Murphy]

  I have been a VHF contester since 1970

Very seldom have I used my call. I generally have been an Op at a multiop 
effort.

 Yes we either work them or we don't!

  Any way we coordinate our activities improves our chances of making a 
valid contact on any band we operate.

  If two stations "AGREE" to log each on a certain band at a certain time it 
does not matter if they decided it a week before
the contest via the US Mail or during the contest using Cell Phones. They 
are conspiring together which we as a group neither
condone or encourage but it will occur. Very infrequently I hope.

  I still think the operator or group who puts together a good station and 
uses all there skills to make the difficult contact a reality
should use all tools available to make that happen.

             73 & DX

                           Walt Murphy    N2WM    FN21OC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les Rayburn" <les at highnoonfilm.com>
To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:15 AM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Manufactured QSO's


> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> --
> 73,
>
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
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