After spending 12 nights-in-a-row straining to hear and assemble thousands of weak calls, I would cautiously agree with Herb: if the DX clearly has the prefix, just send the missing letters. Maybe it
I had this happen many times as well but it is especially annoying near the end of the contest when seeking to find those last few contacts that I heard fellows calling CQ and only sending their call
George, IMO you have solved the problem ... mental. Your last sentence describes the condition exactly ... your brain goes blank or slows as a defence mechanism from all the noise/signals on the band
I had this happen many times as well but it is especially annoying near the end of the contest when seeking to find those last few contacts that I heard fellows calling CQ and only sending their call
For Stations located in the tropics and with QRN sometimes in all direction, slowing down is the worst thing to do as getting the missing letters between the static crashes sometimes really helps. He
Thanks Herb, That certainly removes the operator condition from the explanation. It will be interesting to discover why the transmissions tail off. Is it repeatable? For example if the same station k