A couple of points, some already pointed out:
1. When you call CQ, other Class D stations don't know you are class D until
after they call you.
2. A lot of folks sending class D just heard the activity and start answering
CQs - they never read the rules, never will.
3. I've done FD probably 25 times and I don't understand all the rules. It took
ten years for me to realize that
I shouldn't enter class B just because I was using a push-pull final
stage...
4. Points? Points? This is FD - we don't need no steenkin' points!
I think a new FD rule is needed: no station in VA should be allowed to enter
class 4A, as many casual CW ops seemed
to have a lot of trouble sending 4A VA. There was another one - 6B NH or
something - that was funny, too.
The wide use of 1x1 calls hurt my rate a bit - I had many copy my station as
K3C - without all those 1x1s, most would
have realized it was a busted call.
Nice FD coverage in the Washington Post at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/27/AR2010062703214.html
73 John K3TN
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