on 3/29/00 1:31 PM, Bill Coleman AA4LR at aa4lr@radio.org wrote:
>> Always giving your call after every CQ isn't always necessary, IMHO.
>
> Yes, here are cases where giving your call after every Q isn't necessary.
>
> HOWEVER, there are FAR TOO MANY stations who work QSO after QSO without
> giving their callsign, going for minutes at a time. If you are doing
> mostly S & P, it is a big time-waster.
I'll agree with that one, completely, Bill. I would try to give my call
every other or every third QSO. Sometimes folks would ask. I would then
give it in my exchange to the station I was currently working at the time.
The most annoying thing in a contest is the big, rare DX guy who works the
pileup for 20 minutes without an ID. Of course, that's the great thing
about contests and WPX in general: His prefix is no more of a point
multiplier than another unique prefix from Germany, Russia or Spain, etc.
He's no more valuable than anyone else. That's why I didn't even waste my
time looking for TX0DX or most of the other ones.
73,
Jon
KE9NA
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Jon Ogden
KE9NA
Member: ARRL, AMSAT, DXCC, NRA
http://www.qsl.net/ke9na
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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