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Re: [CQ-Contest] Another way to be a lid

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Another way to be a lid
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:43:26 -0500
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I guess I don't understand the aggravation. Shelby. Are you saying that 
someone with a short, recognizable call, relatively fast CW and a loud 
signal shouldn't call a station unless he (or she) is the first to begin 
calling the station?

73, Pete N4ZR

At 11:14 AM 1/20/2008, Shelby Summerville wrote:
>Art Boyars wrote: "I was calling CQ and got the beginning of a response when
>K1DG called in, louder and faster."
>
>IMHO, the main reason, for stations answering a CQ, to adjust their speed to
>the station calling CQ, not necessarily the speed that they were using?
>Aside from deliberate QRM, just about nothing aggravates me more than the
>above mentioned scenario! I realize that my copy speed isn't where it
>could/should be, and I can live with that, but a bit of consideration, from
>others, could/would go a long way!
>
>C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
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