No I don't think one has to acknowledge what one received.
I included it to illustrate what I did observe going wrong due to other causes.
I DO think that one should "acknowledge" ie include the other stations call
- as you and many others do.
Skipping sending a signal report as in "PA PA BK" - I do believe is not in
conformance with the rules.
Leaving out the callers callsign is at least a dubious practice IMHO.
Steve N1NB
At 15:32 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:15 PM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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>>In the example above AB1CD (a call carefully constructed to hide the
>>guilty HI HI)
>
>Bad choice
>
>:-)
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>- AD1C
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>I sent:
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><HISCALL> TU 599 MA MA de <MYCALL> throughout the contest.
>
>There is no requirement to send back the report you got, though your
>message implies this should be done. It just wastes time, if there's
>doubt, the receiving station should ask for it again. The County Hunter
>nets (both SSB and CW) require it, BTW.
No I don't think one has to acknowledge what one received.
I included it
>73!
>
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