This weekend I had several U.S. stations calling me during the ARRL DX Contest. I do not like to ignore them, but don't want to take the time to work them. I settled in saying "sri no us in test tu"
I had one US guy call me. With my little pistol station I didn't exactly have much of a pileup so I just sent "DX only fer contest, sri. QRZ?" That seemed to do the trick. 73, David, K2DBK k2dbk.com
Hi Andrew, For the less-than-half-a-minute it might take to do so, simply work them... Why be rude & otherwise "turn off" a fledgling future contestor...? He / she will learn soon enough the error of
And along the same path ..... How about the DX stations who call DX stations in ARRL DX Contest? We had a couple dozen. Some got logged with DX as the state and some are blank (forced the QSO). Do we
ARRL is different from CQWW, where the calling USA station may very well n eed you for a multiplier. In CQWW you should log everyone who calls. In ARRL it is quicker to work them than to say "sri no
I think sending "5NN MA" is faster than "sri no us in test tu". I just worked them and moved on. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http
I think 5NN WA is appropriate. A few seconds of dits and dahs and off you go. 73 Bill K3SV -- _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://
I had more U.S. stations call me this year than ever before. If it is a "dry" period I just work them real quick and get done with it, but I don't put them in the contest log. However yesterday morni
A number of people in the local contest club commented about this as well, more so than in previous years. It might be just easier to work them and move on. From the DX side in the Caribbean that was
Heard a few DX stations doing just the reverse too... mostly on 15. Think folks were overwhelmed by the activity on what had become a pretty quiet band 73 Julius Fazekas N2WN Tennessee Contest Group
It's probably faster to just work them, same as dupes. I had several stateside guys call me as well. I see a few of them as LOTW confirmations already so I assume they wanted a Minnesota QSO. 73 Stev
Andrew, Just send them your exchange. "599 NH" takes less time than "sri no us in test tu". Most logging programs will handle it. I just didn't log 'em! And if youu ignore them, they just keep callin
I had about 5 US callers. I simply work them giving them the correct exchnage, not log them, and move on. Even if they don't get QST, if they're interested they can look up online what contest is goi
They're a royal pain in the a**, but just work them! It takes more time to say "sri no us in test tu" that just working them. Not only that, but if you don't work them, many will continue to call you
What I've done in the past is either ignore them or work them to get them off my back if they become too much of a nuisance, then remove them from the log I send it. I always keep a copy of the log w
the V31 station that had EU calling him handled the situation nicely mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ Weight Loss Program Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here!
Andrew, I think that most contesters feel that it is just easlier to work them. Lots of time they do not understand what you mean and come back with additional questions. Which means you end up spend
I recall that this happened to me more on SSB than on CW. I was part of a M/S operation from NO9Z using my call a few years ago and I had a lot of USA calling me on Sunday morning in the Phone weeken
As the qsl manager of 6Y1V it pisses me off to receive qsl requests from Europe from guys who think they have worked 6Y1V during ARRL contests. They are definitely not in the log, neither is there a
I always work them. I figure I might want their Q in a subsequent domestic contest. It doesn't take long. If there are multiple callers and I'm able to make a choice, their QSO shows up later in the