Hi all, In ARRL DX CW, I called one of the ZZ80xyz stations. He came back to me as VE3XT. Following the advice of many stations on here, I withheld my exchange to give him the opportunity to get my c
Kelly, What you describe happens all the time, in one form or another (he got call wrong, he sent your report before you sent his & he then sent "QRZ", etc. You did the right thing. If the pileup res
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:01:41 -0400
Kelly, (de VE9AA) I would not have logged the QSO.(you are not VE3XT and that?s who he has, in ON, in his log) Every once in a while someone will have decided that I am VE8AA and QSL or R a QSO that
Who is giving this advice? I personally dislike someone withholding the exchange. With the exception of RTTY, if I hear someone giving their callsign before the exchange I assume that I have it incor
I had thought that there's no penalty for you - if the other station gets your call wrong. If you have his call and the exchange is correct, you don't get hit with a penalty - even if the other guy h
Withholding the exchange *until the running station sends a correct exchange to you, including your correct callsign* seems like a reasonable thing to do to me. If you give your exchange before recei
Since this is the CQ-Contest list I was referring to contest operations. If you try and correct a miscopied callsign and the op refuses to do so, you will still get credit for the QSO. The rules are