W6SX writes:
> As I read your synopsis, whether the W8 was working you or not, the
> more fundamental problem is that YOU never got an acknowledgement
> that he received your exchange correctly. If he "had just sent my
> call once," you would have known he was trying to work you, but you
> still wouldn't know if you had a completed QSO. If it were my log,
> he'd get a NIL.
Yup - that's what I ended up doing. Just wasn't sure enough he was
working me. In a few other cases, I actually tuned up or down to the
next CQing frequency to see if the timing matched up - and if so - it
was clear that he was not working me.
On the second evening - during the time that I wasn't sure I had a
"clear channel" - I resorted to a trick I hear the JAs use a lot during
their KCJ contest. They end their QSOs like this:
CQ Station: JA1ABC 599
S&P Station: JA9XYZ 599
CQ Station: QSL TU E E
S&P Station: E E
I started using this and when I got a E E back from the guy, I smiled and
knew we just had a real QSO. If I didn't get one - then it was another
piece of data that was used to go into the complicated decision of "do I
put this in the log".
If the guy was say in WWa section - then I would probably log it, but if
the guy was on the east coast, then maybe not (depending on how the timing
sounded).
I am sure that I guessed wrong in a few cases, which will result in NILs
in either my - or the other guy's log. With improved operating technique
by all of us, we can do better. When I ask "please send my call" - I
almost always got silence... not a good feeling.
A few of my contesting buddies seemed to think that the percentage of
people sending the other call was up this weekend - so perhaps this
discussion is convincing some people that it is a good idea.
What is amusing to me is when I come right back to someone and have their
callsign correct and they take the time to send their callsign once or twice
again - without sending mine. The logic of that totally escapes me.
73 Tree N6TR (aka N6TR/7)
Boring, OR
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