Stan,
you might want to check your logging program and put a (extra) space between
your (2) calls.
Now it sounds like
"K4SBZK4SBZ"
Yuri VE3DZ
> On 02/18/2025 10:20 AM EST Stanley Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> It’s been my experience that a high percentage of ops get my callsign wrong.
> This results in NILs in the final scoring. I now send it twice and this has
> improved the accuracy of my contacts. Which is worse for your log — a
> slightly longer call or a NIL in your log?
>
> Stan, K4SBZ
>
> "Real radio bounces off the sky."
>
> > On Feb 18, 2025, at 9:41 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> >
> > I've done the ARRL DX CW many times. (and do most of the majors;
> > CQWW,WPX,WAE,RDX many many times)
> >
> > Is some institution in EU (or some popular EU logging software) instructing
> > EU's to call you with their callsign twice?
> > (or if I am running, they'll again put their callsign in their message when
> > they come back to me yet one more time?
> >
> > I am hesitant to even complain (make note of is more like it) as they made
> > up 86.6% of my log this weekend (TU EU!!) but this weekend more than ever
> > before in my decades on the bands did I have (what seemed like) every 8th or
> > 9th caller doing this at times(maybe more at times). I ran anywhere from
> > 34wpm to 40wpm (mostly 38wpm) this weekend and especially on the high bands
> > I was coming back to the loudest guy just as soon as they had sent their
> > callsign ONCE. Occasionally when my rig was just going into TX, I'd catch
> > part of a CW character telling me they had sent their call again. No
> > response (I doubled with them)
> >
> > Thank goodness for the "=" key in N1MMLogger+ (repeats last message sent) I
> > about wore it out.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > VE9AA “NB”
> >
> > Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
> >
> >
> >
> >
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