Trey Garlough wrote:
Hi Trey,
Very well said. I couldn't say it any better.
Our brain is programmed to "hear" the prefix first. Doesn't sound weird
hearing Japan X-ray when running a Stateside pile-up? What hell is that
Japan X-ray doing here? In consequence your brain refuses to copy, no
matter whow strong the JX is.
On the other hand if you hear Kilo Charlie your brain immediately says:
Kilo Charlie five nine kay and pay close attention to the Kilo Charlie
station filtering away the others Ws and Ks.
That's it.
73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar
(ZZ2Z in the contests)
mailto:py2yp@pobox.com
> Aha, now this is something I have *lots* of experience with!
>
> This isn't related to callsign length. If you are too weak or too
> slow to get the DX's attention, then it doesn't matter if your call is
> G0D. It's the first letters of your callsign that perk up the ears of
> the DX station, not the last ones. You have two choices here: 1) get
> louder, and 2) improve your technique so that you respond to the CQ
> more promptly.
>
> If are so weak that the DX isn't hearing you, then the fact that you
> are "doubling" with the DX station while sending your call one time
> phonetically is no big deal at all. This is not something to be
> fretting over -- it happens all the time.
>
> The moral of the story is, send your whole call once phonetically
> unless the DX is specifying otherwise.
>
> And I know this topic was covered recently, but I think it bears
> repeating: Please, avoid saying wasteful drivel like "QRP QRP" when
> calling in a pileup. I'm not so concerned about the time I waste
> listening to people yell QRP QRP as I am about you wasting that little
> surge of QSB you were riding atop that crested at the moment you
> *should* have been sending your callsign once phonetically.
>
> Real QRP men like G4BUE and AA2U know better than to jeopardize their
> opportunity to bag the DX by sending extraneous stuff. AA2U is the
> QRP champion of the 90's, and I have never once heard him once say QRP
> in the zillions of times he has worked me from HC8N, so maybe there's
> a lesson to be learned there.
>
> --Trey, N5KO
>
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