[PaQSO] Sweep on CW?

[Eric Tichansky]

I wouldn't be that harsh.  What we're dealing with here is a state QSO 
party, not Sweepstakes or NAQP.  As opposed to more serious events where 
the vast majority of operators are seasoned contesters, there are a 
large number of casual, non-contest operators in a state QP.  The actual 
percentage may even be as high as half, there are many callsigns I never 
work in national contests outside of PAQP.  The reality is, many 
counties are only activated by the latter group, who haven't had 
experience running and managing pileups.  A pileup would turn into a 
disaster (listen to some of the DX pileups on how awful operating 
etiquette can be), not only frustrating the running station, but 
everyone trying to contact him.  It's even worse on CW if the speed is 
excessively slow (<15WPM), the operator constantly needs fills, repeats 
his own call in the exchange, sends the exchange twice on every QSO when 
signals are perfectly readable, or only catches partial calls on every 
QRZ.   Those type of operators need a different environment to develop 
running skills, not being subjected to the horrors of a massive pileup 
because of being in a rare county.  I've heard operators completely 
shutdown and disappear when pileups get deep and they are no longer the 
one in control.  Something like Field Day, NAQP or operating from a 
non-rare county would be a better place to learn for green ops, 
otherwise, having a "learning" experience like an unruly pileup would 
send any green operator off with a sour experience and likely have 
reservations about ever doing it again.

73 - Eric NO3M

On 10/11/2011 10:33, Hank Greeb wrote:
> Mobiles who ONLY S&P should be relegated to LID category and sent to
> Oblivion of 10 GHz and up.  Folks who "know" they're in rare counties
> but only S&P should be treated similarly.  The newbies who don't know
> better should be gently told after the fact, and with encouraging words,
> such as "Please, pretty please, call CQ repetitively next year.  Someone
> will find you, spot you on a DX Cluster, and you'll be swamped with calls."
>
> I heard several S&Pers from rare counties, never could catch them
> calling CQ.  I immediately forgot their calls because of habit of
> intentionally not remembering such things.
>
> 72/73 de n8xx Hg
>
> On 10/11/2011 9:59 AM, Eric Tichansky NO3M wrote:
>    
>> <snip>
>> (a must to snag the search and pouncers, of which there were a few for new counties, eg. MOE on Sunday morning while CQing on 40M)
>> <snip
>>      
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