Michael D. Adams wrote:
> While I like it when running stations identify frequently, I have to
> ask: is this really something that needs to be addressed as a rule?
IMHO, we too often suggest (and not quite as often, adopt) rules that are more
complicated than necessary to achieve the desired goal.
The NA Sprint has addressed this issue in a creative but simple way:
- your callsign is part of the exchange.
If you don't ID at the end of a QSO, you haven't sent your whole exchange. If
you don't send your zone in CQ WW, the QSO doesn't count; similarly, if
you don't send your own callsign in a Sprint QSO, it doesn't count.
Why not make this simple change in the exchange of other contests?
Certainly no contest requires faster work than Sprint -- if we can live with
IDing in every QSO in Sprint, we can certainly live with it in WPX!
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66
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