Hi Joe,
Chris is right, SCP helps a lot when additional personal “experience“ of the OP
is added, like frequent contest callsigns (see his examples) or knowledge about
(im)possible propagation paths at the moment or you were just missing the
prefix.
SCP helps in increasing the rate in pile-ups and long time ago I decided to
give it a guess to the most likely proposed callsign instead of asking for
repetition. My guesses are ok in more than 2/3 of the cases so it helps.
And sending a ? with whatever information just urges many of the ‘unwanted‘
callers in the pile-up to repeat their call and slow down the rate with
additional QRM (just by ignoring the ‘whatever information‘ and hearing only
the ?).
73
Rob, DL7VOA
Robert Busch .iPhone
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> Am 03.02.2020 um 02:29 schrieb Chris Plumblee <chris.plumblee@gmail.com>:
>
> What about "JA3Y" or "DH8B" or "9FAP" or "L5BM"?
>
> Super Check Partial (in my experience) is of limited usefulness with short
> callsigns like we have a lot of in the USA. However, on longer EU or Asian
> (mostly JA) calls, it's more valuable.
>
> The examples above are strictly from my imagination...no commentary
> intended toward JA3YBK, DH8BQA, HB9FAP, or HL5BMX.
>
> 73,
> Chris W4WF
>
>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 8:12 PM Joe <nss@mwt.net> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone help me with these? Super Check Partials...
>>
>> If needed we can discuss this off list.
>>
>> I have in the past tried to use these SCP's and just don't get it. Or
>> I'm just not using them correctly?
>>
>> Say I get a Partial call K9T
>>
>> I know there's more, and I am offered 26 more to choose from. And that's
>> just it. By the time I look through 26 possibles,
>>
>> I could have easily just sent K9? or 9T? etc. and got a repeat much
>> faster and then know for sure what the correct call actually is, vs
>> taking a guess from the 26 possibilities on what it "Might" be.
>>
>> What am I missing or doing wrong?
>>
>> Joe WB9SBD
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