Is it me or is the issue with DX signing their call sign once every 1-3 minutes (sometimes more!) getting extremely frustrating? The worst example was a station in the Africa region who decided to r
These guys would work more stations if they'd just id more frequently. Oftentimes I'd run across one of these mystery stations that refused to ID but as soon as he did, WHAM a whole horde of guys cal
Yes, the lack of IDing bothers me as well. The other pet peeve I have is stations in state QSO parties on SSB who don't use phonetics. You would be surprised how hard it is to get a correct callsign
Sometimes I think the thing to do would be to work them and not even ask for a callsign, just not log anything on my end. If enough of us did that and sent in logs, they might get the idea (probably
Hi John, There is a mobile county hunters net on 20 meter SSB, where phonetics are FORBIDDEN by the usual net control operator (the regulars all [or should] recognize the other regulars' calls), to t
Shane, et al, there is a very simple solution to this problem. CQ needs to adopt something similar to the SS exchange and make the call a MANDATORY part of the exchange. Something like this would not
Shane, I operated assisted and not sending the call was still frustrating. I don't use the cluster as the authoritative source of the station's call so I wait to hear the call sign. There were many i
I heard one station sending "5NN 33" but he didn't send his callsign in over three minutes, so I passed him by. Lots of stations to work who ARE sending their calls. 73, Zack W9SZ ___________________
I didn't move on -- I called them. After all, it might be a needed mult.. If they then IDd (or IDd in the next QSO), I logged them. If they didn't -- well, it's pretty hard to log a QSO with a statio
I usually call the guy, then before giving a report, send CALL? It usually works. Once in a while I'll get a TU. if he logged me, without me sending a report and without me knowing his call, he'll be
Doug, I am very disappointed to read such comments, especially from one experienced guy like yourself. You of all people should know - there are some guys that need a call to be repeated to them not
If I don't know his call, how can I possibly have worked him, let alone legally log him? 73, de Hans, K0HB But if you worked the guy - then you MUST log him. Otherwise the whole thing does not make a
every 1-3 minutes (sometimes more!) getting extremely frustrating? An unscrupulous person (not me!) might discourage this by intentionally spotting non-IDer's calls incorrectly by a dit or two. Such
I think its a fairly standard practice NOT to send your call everytime when there is a pileup calling. It's quicker to send and it thins out the herd, making it easier to copy a call and get the job
How do you have 300 QSO rate per hour? Just do not ID. If you do, the rate goes down. Must be why I have such lousy rate (6W1RY, TO5A,NH7A). If Mr. Bozo wants to send his call every three minutes bec
Sometimes the station worked will send the call of the non-identifying run station ... a good case for sending the call back. The real annoying circumstance I ran into this past weekend was waiting f
I am of the opinion that it is bad form to use non-IDing to thin a pileup. A much better way is to go back to a caller who is slightly off your frequency. Once the crowd, or at least the intelligent
boy i must be getting old...........i guess it was before spotting whatever that is, i could call cq once, count the number of signals i could hear, work that many and wait...................until ev
The notion that S&Pers should wait a minute or more to determine your call is pure and simple arrogance. The S&P'ers time is every bit as valuable as that of a running station, and they should not pr
Author: "David J. Sourdis - HK1A" <hk1kxa@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:40:54 -0500
http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh/callid.htm This is a very good article on the subject, written by Jose Nunes on his webpage "Contest CT1BOH" David HK1A EC5KXA ex-HK1KXA ____________________________________