>Jumping into a pileup when you don't know who you're calling is wrong.
devil's advocate mode on:
what if i believe i have the callsign correct, yet it turns out not to be?
then what happens? my callsign, KB3KAQ, caused a little confusion during the
recent VHF Sweepstakes. on more than a handful of occassions, stations
responding to my SSB CQ would have my call as KA3Q or KA3KQ. the band
conditions were poor and my guess is the stations thought i was repeating my
again, when i was mid call sign. again, this happened more than half a dozen
times.
does that make the other ops arrogant? does that make them any less of an
operator? i think it makes them human and if band conditions are poor, these
things are to be expected. of course, had i been working CW, i would not have
had this problem, right?
-steve hanlon
KB3KAQ
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