On Friday, November 07, 1997 5:17 AM, Doug Smith[SMTP:desmith@Telalink.Net]
wrote:
>QRP ops: please be more confident about the power of your signals! Q
>category stations were much more likely than others to send their exchanges
>twice on the first try. But it was usually unnecessary & a waste of time --
>most QRP ops were easy copy, with many of them louder than many A-power
>stations. Especially with the long exchange in SS, it's best to only repeat
>something if you're asked to repeat it.
>
>73 Doug
>
Good point, Doug.
And when asked to repeat anything, say/send it only
once. If another repeat is necessary, the operator will
ask for it.
I have always felt that you could tell the stations, QRP
or QRO who felt they had poor signals: they send
everything two or three times without being asked to do so.
I guess they've been asked for repeats so often they
just repeat out of hand.
During SS CW, I got a lot of requests for repeat of my
Check (59) and section (STX). Apparently, the space
between was not adequate. A few hours into the contest,
I edited the fields adding a half-space. That seemed to
cure the requests for repeats of my check/section.
QRO(A and B) Ops:
When working a QRP station, it is not necessary to send
everything twice simply because the QRP station is weak
--I actually had a couple of stations do that to me.
73,
Dale Martin, KG5U
kg5u@hal-pc.org
http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u
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