If I had a pound (£) for every time I have heard a chaser tell an activator that he has a S2S call in the pile-up I could at the least afford a new PSU!
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That’s why you’re the Summit to Summit Champ. 
It rarely occurs to me to go hunting around for other summits, unless I’m taking part in a special SOTA event. I just work the pile up and then change bands or move on.
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That’s it…
73 Armin
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What can be done?
Wait for the big guns to finish or wait for a amabily chaser to help you. When I listen to a SOTA station, I always announce it to the activator, on CW CLNG S2S.
73 José
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After reading this thread yesterday, on today’s activations (G/LD-020 and G/LD-021) I tried a new approach during each pileup. Every five or so QSOs, I asked for only QRP or S2S stations to call in - and everyone else to please stand by. Being a Monday, I expected complete silence, but to my surprise it worked - I got a number of S2S contacts who would normally never have had a chance (signal report 33 etc). I’m also glad to report that not one “strong” station took advantage of the pause in the pile up, everyone played fair.
73 Dave
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Glad to hear it worked well for you that is the way to work pile ups couple of years ago I put a post up complainging about the standard of operating and suggested what you have done and also to do numbers just like DX-peditions but got slaughtered including the quote" you only want that because your callsign has 1 in it" how shallow and ignorant what happens if I join the party at number 2 or 3 I have to wait but its better than listening to people drowning out one another so keep up the good work.
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It probably works for SOTA but I find it frustrating in a big DX pile-up, because often he works lots of low number stations but by the time the guy reaches 8 he has got fed up, only works a few then goes on to 9, works a few, then goes back to the start! This has happened to me several times, its one of the reasons I lost interest in chasing DX. I don’t mind being at the back of the queue but I do mind not getting a fair crack of the whip!
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