Predict The Obligatory Whine

[W3WN]

2012 ARRL DX CW Contest begins tonight at 0000 UTC (7 PM EST) and runs for 48 hours.

I'm thinking of starting a virtual pool to predict when the first post complaining about "them dang kahntoasters" taking up the bands will be posted... well, elsewhere.

If you'd like to participate, just for fun, please try and predict the following:

The date and time (within the quarter hour) of the first post. Date & Time in UTC.
The person making the post.
The forum the first post will show up in (for example, QRZ: Discussions, eHam: Contest Forum, etc.)

In the unlikely event of a tie, the tie-breaker will be your best guess as the first person to respond to the original complaint that non-contesters should go to the WARC bands for the duration.

Place your (virtual) bets, place your bets!

[NQ6U]

Here's some cheese to go with that whine:



And my entry is 00:30 UCT on 17 Feb 2012 on QRZ, poster will be IOI

[KJ3N]

Won't happen, Ron. CW contests rarely result in QRZ Bitchfests. That's reserved for phone contests.

[W3WN]

Won't happen, Ron. CW contests rarely result in QRZ Bitchfests. That's reserved for phone contests.

Oh contrare. The kvetching will start BEFORE the phone contest does, but there will be kvetching about the CW end.

And it's not just on the Zed. eHam has it's share of them too.

[WX7P]

Oh contrare. The kvetching will start BEFORE the phone contest does, but there will be kvetching about the CW end.

And it's not just on the Zed. eHam has it's share of them too.

I agree, the anti-contest dopes will come out of the woodwork, even though it's a CW contest. You'd think that an occasional weekend off from talking about their pellagra would do some of these stations good.

Does anyone even read eham? Last time I was there, which admittedly was years ago, the forums were jumbled and hard to follow.

An off topic question- Is it my imagination, or are a lot of the "frequency parkers" new hams? I started googling callsigns of some of the clowns I hear on 75 at night, and a lot of these guys with shiny cool 1x2 or 2x1 callsigns haven't been licensed very long. Yet, they all give the IMPRESSION, they've been licensed forever.

It's my fun new party game! VanityHq.com is good spot to look up callsigns, much better than the zed.

[W2NAP]

An off topic question- Is it my imagination, or are a lot of the "frequency parkers" new hams? I started googling callsigns of some of the clowns I hear on 75 at night, and a lot of these guys with shiny cool 1x2 or 2x1 callsigns haven't been licensed very long. Yet, they all give the IMPRESSION, they've been licensed forever.

It's my fun new party game! VanityHq.com is good spot to look up callsigns, much better than the zed.

nope, ive caught a couple of them myself. freq. is dead someone asks it is in use, someone jumps right up says its in use. and pisses and moans about how dare you ask. everyone should know our damn net is here every night and starts in a hour, look up the call. recent issue. and some are long timers.

but will piss and moan if you use that freq 2 hours before the worthless net begins.

[WØTKX]

I messed with VanityHQ for a while. Looking up 1x3's (I like them best). I "discovered" an old Elmer's callsign (did not know of it when I knew him), and it was perfect. Has rhythm on CW, and good phonetics for phone.

1x3 is cool and retro, the "expert newbies" are not interested... they want that "Extra Callsign".

If I ever bother to upgrade, I'm keeping this one.

[K7SGJ]

Holy shit. Not another effing contest. It's the same damn thing every GD weekend. Not only does it wreak havoc with the sail mail, it's impossible to have a decent QSO with Chuckles. Oh wait. Doesn't matter what is or is not happening you can never have a decent QSO with that twit. Never mind.....

[KJ3N]

Not only does it wreak havoc with the sail mail, it's impossible to have a decent QSO with Chuckles. Oh wait. Doesn't matter what is or is not happening you can never have a decent QSO with that twit. Never mind.....

:rofl:

[N8YX]

I'll have to see about working this one /bicycle mobile - going to go for a long ride today if the weather cooperates. Suppose I ought to look into an FT-817 for the bikes, given the amount of time I spend riding. 10/12/15M QRP might be doable with favorable propagation and a rack-mounted, loaded multiband vertical such as an Opek or Outbacker. Either antenna is light enough and small enough for this application. One can always trail a wire counterpoise behind the bike while in motion. :chin:

ETA: Posting from a tablet sucks!

My bets are that someone's RTTY or PSK ox will be gored by 0000 UTC this evening and we'll hear all about it...