[SixClub] Rag Chewing vs grids

[Kevin Milhorn]

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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:04:04 -0400
From: "Roger (K8RI)" <50MHz at rogerhalstead.com>
Subject: Re: [SixClub] Rag chews on 6 meters
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> Have you ever worked a guy who you've worked earlier (months or years) and

Quite a few

> forgotten? Some of them Ops with their fancy logging programs will rip you

> a new one for having the audacity to work them twice!

So far all have been polite, usually the QSO will go something to the effect

of: "Hi Roger, good to hear you again from EN73. You're 59 again today". I 
thank them for the report and keep on hunting.

Roger (K8RI - EN73))

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>                        Mikie KC2FTN
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Hey All,
Here is my comments.
I am a contester and have been for most of my 30 years in hamradio.
Having said that, the guy who gives you crap because you work him in another
opening is a jerk. Conditions are different for that opening than they were
the last time, and after all isn't that how ham friendships are made???
I think you will find the longer that 6 is open to an area the more likely
folks are likely to ragchew. If the band has been open from here in Florida
to W8/W9 for 4 hours, there will be more guys rag chewing at the end of the
opening than there were at the beginning. I think there are several reasons
for that. Most of the guys that are on have probably worked each other in
that opening, and the band is still open you might as well use it.
In any case, the guys that ignore good operating/polite are lids! As I said
before, I contest a lot, mostly on CW but some on phone. I have been called
many times in a contest by someone that wants to ragchew, and will take a
minute or two and politely explain to them what I am doing and exchange all
the normal stuff in a ragchew QSO.

Just my 2 cents. 

73,
Kevin N4KM ex KS9O, WD9COL
Trustee K4OJ (Florida Contest Group)