And the same is true of DXers and DXpeditioners. There used to be some
very famous DXpeditioners who were clueless if you sent anything to them
other than your call and "599." And sometimes what you are sending to
them is to try to help them. Such as to tell them that their XIT is on
(as evidenced that they QSY to the frequency of each station they answer
and aren't making any or many two-way QSOs).
It does pay to know how to copy CW other than the standard QSO. I am
reminded at the start of two big DX contests when two famous DXers,
probably operating SO2R with the monitor turned off were calling CQ with
one call and sending TU with another call. I don't know which call the
stations who worked them before me logged, but I told them and, although
it took a few repeats, they both figured it out and changed the TU
message to be consistent with the CQ message. This is one reason that I
always leave the monitor on even though turned way down and even when
doing SO2R. Unlike a few I have known, I am not confident that I will
always hit the right F key on the computer (or when using N1MM that the
computer will send what I expect it to send when depressing a certain F
key). Anyway, if you must turn your monitor off, at least go through
all your F keys before the contest and make sure they are sending what
you expect them to send and not something from some prior contest. And
if you are using N1MM, you need to do that in both run and s&p modes.
73, John, K4BAI.
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