I never had the luxury of a logging program I could
use when operating field day, always had to have some
one log, and what's been said about repeating the
guy's info back to him goes double with some one
logging, and even then I often had to repeat it again.
All the good loggers were usually busy making their
own contacts on annother rig, lol. It was even harder
with cw, as some one else said earlier. Especially for
1 who's used to copying in my head.
--- fred Olver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I would suggest you get someone to do the logging
> for you.  In the case of
> phone qso's, if you have a competent logger handy
> you can move alot faster.
> Also, calling cq via wave files might provide you
> with another avenue for
> use.  Although I have not tried this myself, I look
> forward to doing so as
> soon as I get up a descent antenna.  Also, back to
> holding a frequency, if
> you can do it, do so, better to make them come to
> you than having to
> constantly moving about on the bands, making sure
> you are within your
> frequency-range.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> Fred Olver n9bso
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:35 PM
> Subject: a contesting question
>
>
> > Hi, folks:
> >
> > I know there are some veteran contesters out
> there, so hopefully I can get
> > an answer to a small question I have.
> >
> > My contesting experience thus far has been rather
> limnited, but I am
> getting
> > into it more and more.  In fact, this coming
> week-end, for the NAQP ssb
> > contest, I'll be part of a team for our local
> club.
> >
> > My main strategy for contesting has typically been
> "search and pounce".  I
> > find that this gives me enough time to get info
> entered into my logging
> > program, without causing others to wait for what I
> have to do.
> >
> > However, I would like to become more proficient at
> CQing, and having folks
> > come to me.  I understand that this is the best
> way to rack up contacts.
> >
> > My problem is this:  By the time I work with my
> logging program to enter
> > info from an answered CQ, a full second or two has
> elapsed, which makes
> > things not proceed very smoothly.  In other words,
> I find myself
> struggling
> > with listening to both the rig and the computer
> speech screen reader at
> the
> > same time.  I guess one solution to this would be
> to get someone to log
> for
> > me.  The other solution might just be practice!
> >
> > Does anyone have any brilliant suggestions or
> strategies that have worked
> > for them?
> >
> > I'm simply trying to make my responses to CQ's
> more efficient.
> >
> > Thanks as always for your help.
> >
> > Best 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ


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