[PaQSO] VFO Locked Stations

[Mark Kempisty]

Good contesting practice is when your rates drop check out the band for 
other stations. The runs I've gotten both in BUX and CLI always come in 
waves. Many people hope in and out of the contest from their home QTH 
since there are other things to get done.

And when you get through the band, what do you call that new empty 
frequency you find? Your new CQ frequency!

73,
Mark N3GNW


Jim wrote:

>There is one thing that I hope we can see this year. 
>That would be the elimination of so-called �VFO locked
>stations.�  You know what I mean here.  These people
>call CQ continuously and absolutely refuse to turn the
>knob.  This hurts us all.  I have nothing against
>people calling CQ, but I think that every so often,
>especially when rates go down, turning the knob could
>not hurt.  If all people call CQ all the time, no one
>will ever make a log.  
>
>Case in point:  Last year the effort got 66 counties,
>missing only Snyder.  I know from past experience that
>there is typically a station from MIF/SNY.  I later
>saw that they were active.  Why were they not in our
>log?  Towards the end of the contest I told our ops to
>hunt for this station, but to no avail.  Obviously
>this station never found us either.  This is how this
>hurts.  It would have been the first sweep I ever
>helped out with and another multiplier.
>
>PLEASE SPIN THE KNOB SOMETIMES.  IT IS PAINLESS!
>
>Jim
>N3PBH
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