kr2q@optimum.net wrote:
>about a "cut number - like" solution. So if I'm sending SN 123 but the other
>guy
>copied 112 and asks a CFM, I should be able to send something like RR3 or KK3
>or something
>so that he knows that he has the other stuff correct but that the last digit
>(in this case) is
>wrong. Sending 1324 multiple times is a pain. Sending RR2R would be much
>better (I think?).
>
>
It sounds effective and elegant but I think it will fail in most cases
due to the anticipation of the listener. Those habits and routines are
so strong that even routined ops have difficulties i.e. with cut
numbers at unexpected places. I still silently (not maliciously) smile
about a big gun sending "een-something" and completely failing three
times with my slightly ironic reply "een 7e" in ARRL-Contest ;-)
As someone with a REALLY WEAK qrp-signal compared to Doug (my lowwires
only have longings to become something like antennas some day) I wonder
about the expectations of running stations how to best correct a
miscopied suffix. My "MBS" provides a lot of opportunities and variants
for this :-(
In WPX I often replied with "DL8MBS MBS" (by paddle with slightly
reduced speed) not knowing whether the omitting of the prefix helps or
hurts. But my gut feeling says that it may not be too good to ignore the
anticipation of the listener - like omitting 599 before repeating a
miscopied serial number. It allows to tune in to a very weak signal
while it doesn´t matter to loose one of the initial figures of the 599.
Better than to loose an initial figure of the repeated serial. In the
same sense I sometimes still start a call with "de DL8..." just to say
"Hello, now comes a very weak signal..." allowing the listener to tune
into the difference to most other signals he receives. Any opinions
welcome.
Oh, and please all of you running stations: please don´t omit "test" at
the end of the CQ as more than only a few did this weekend. It´s so bad
to come on a frequency in a fine quick S&P-pass through the band only to
hear a single call - which normally means "This is not the owner of the
frequency to be called" - only to experience wasted moments later that
he really IS the owner of the frequency to be called. Another example of
time saving at the expense of S&P-stations.
73, Chris
(www.dl8mbs.de)
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