Towards the end of the contest I had several folks
miss one part of the exchange and they sent like 11?9
or 110? I filled in the missing number several times
and then sent the entire number. It worked fine in the
handful of cases used.
Slowing the exchange down and wider spacing also
worked well.
I'm not sure why folks feel the need to repeat the
"5nn" part of the exchange tho', that added to some
confusion...
73,
Julius
--- DL8MBS <prickler.schneider@t-online.de> wrote:
> 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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Julius Fazekas
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Tennessee Contest Group
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Elecraft K2/100 #3311
Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
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