On 7/26/2017 9:09 AM, Bill Breeden wrote:
I have used my "Field Day" K3 to call CQ during crowd banded conditions before and after I added the 1 kHz filter and have found the improvement well worth the price of the filter. Your mileage may vary.
While this is certainly a matter of operating preferences, my preference is not to bother with callers more than a few hundred Hz off frequency for at least three reasons. First, I've tried to protect my CQ frequency by keeping it active. If I work someone widely displaced, my frequency is unprotected while they're transmitting. Second, if they're that far off frequency, they're likely to be getting QRMed by a station on their frequency, which makes them hard to copy. Third, if they're that far off frequency, they're more likely to be lids, and thus more likely to take forever to finish a QSO.
For the same reasons, I won't respond to someone signing /QRP. Not because I don't want to take the time to work a weak station, but because that station signing /QRP is likely to be a lid. Indeed, by sending /QRP he/she is wasting time doing so by sending un-necessary information. I work a LOT of QRP, especially during DX contests, with more than 160 countries confirmed, but I've never signed /QRP.
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