[PaQSO] VFO Locked Stations

[pgondos@comcast.net]

Hi all:
  True to a certain extent Jim, but what if we are the "only" station such as a multi-multi in a rare county and people need that county. If I'm spinning the dial, how are they going to find me if I don't call CQ?

Paul, KA3JOi
> 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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