I believe the major problem is the bandmap on telnets and fonts that make
the 0 and o look almost the same. I worked you guys a couple of times by
accident thinking I hadn't worked you on that band yet and then realized
after typing call in that it was down as j70j. But then again, maybe some
of the guys thought you were using cut numbers!!
73
Red k0LUZ
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From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Georgek5kg@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:23 AM
To: aburkefl@comcast.net; CQ-Contest@CONTESTING.COM
Cc: J7OJ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] J7zeroJ Spots
In a message dated 2/21/2007 8:07:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
aburkefl@comcast.net writes:
I was running a modest inverted vee at about 50 feet for 40 meters and an
even more modest G5RV at about 50 feet for 80 meters. Your sigs
sounded rather loud on those two bands.
Sorry I duped you guys a couple of times. On the one hand, I fell into the
trap of relying on the cluster to ID too many stations. After the contest
I discovered I had worked J7OJ on four bands and J7 - ZERO - J on three
other bands! I refuse to blame it on the font - it's blame lies with
stupidity - and perhaps laziness, greed......
A recent thread on the N1MM forum (the same thread has raged off and on!)
that it's far more time consuming in a contest like the ARRL to
tell a station they're a dupe. It's much faster to just work 'em and get
'em
out of the way. Now, if it's SweepStakes, that's an entirely different
story.
Hi Art,
Tnx for the nice comments on our 40 and 80m sigs, and the Qsos, with both
J7OJ and J7zeroJ, hi. Those J7zeroJ spots are a real dilemma for us. Both
this year and last year, we had over 500 dupes - 7% - (out of 7k+ qsos)
largely
due to the J7zeroJ spots. (That is a lot of time wasted when we could have
been making legitimate contacts.) I don't know what to do about it either,
other than change our contest callsign.
Not once did we sign J7zeroJ, so they are no doubt posted by ops who can't
copy code all that well, or at all, for that matter. How much can
dah-dah-dah
sound like dah-dah-dah-dah-dah? Heck, we were even spotted by one of the
"big boys" as J7zeroOJ...go figure.
I am posting this note to the CQ-Contest reflector to spread the word about
the harm of carelessly posting erroneous spots.
73, Geo...
George Wagner, K5KG
941-312-9420
941-400-1960 cell
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