[SixClub] Interesting sidenote on weekend

[N1OFZ]

I had 56 Q's in about 15 grids with 150W and a 3 el beam.  Some of the 
contacts I really had to dig out!  Wish it had been better.

As far as the keyer thing goes, I use RoverLog for VHF contesting.  It 
has a very nice keyer function that runs off of wav files that you 
create.  It sounds very 'real'.  It also has the ability to set a delay 
on looping.  I have never used the looping function as I would just 
prefer to press the FKey that corresponds to the file I want to 
transmit.  I also wait about 5 seconds or so between transmits.  While 
5 seconds seems fast, take a look at a clock with a second hand and see 
how long 5 seconds really is during a contest.  The only reason I can 
think of someone letting a loop run is that they are on another band at 
the time and they are tr ng to hold their spot.  If that is the case I 
think it is a bad practice and I hope others are not doing it as well.  
About 25% of my QSO's on 6 lead to working up the bands - 144, 222 and 
432.  By the time I made it back to 6 there would be someone calling 
where I had been.  I just found another spot but there are those who 
want to 'own' a frequency.

Dana
N1OFZ
FN31hl


>> I hope everyone had a better contest weekend than I did. I was mobile
>> for a lot of it or sitting in Turn 2 at Richmond watching my driver
>> leave his wrench in after a pit stop and then running out gas. Oh well
>> at least the 24 didn't win.
>>
>> You could tell he was using a voice recording because after he made a
>> contact he'd make maybe 2 calls then switch over to  the recording. 
>> The
>> difference was obvious. And this isn't about prerecorded cq calls
>> either. His sounded fine and  I've tried to make one but was never
>> satisfied with the quality.
>>