Vic wrote: In order to time your calls in a pileup, you need to hear the DX station start working another station or send TU after finishing a QSO. -------------------------- In that case I'm not sending, so I don't need to hear between dits.
I suspected that might be the most useful place for between-the-dits extreme QSK, where stations pile on top of each other without exercising any discipline at all. It does little good to keep shouting while the person whose attention you are trying to attract has responded to someone else, although I rather feel that if I'm QRMing the other person it was only because he/she was QRMing me by calling on top of me. I never start calling if I hear others calling before I start, and I expect anyone who responds more slowly to wait their turn. I know, that's not how many contesters behave. Contesting is too often just a 'barroom brawl' on the Ham bands. That's why I disagree with those who claim that contesting produces useful skills for anything but contesting. That's like saying that being able to hold your own in a barroom brawl is good training for how to behave in polite company. I'll stick with polite company where people don't normally shout over me or try to interrupt in the middle of a word or even in mid-sentence! (There! That's undoubtedly renewed my curmudgeon credentials for another year or two...) Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
