Hi Mike,
Yes, this IS annoying. My experience has been that in a large % of
cases, I actually have to KNOW that the callsign is incorrect in order
to repeat their call with ? and then hope that they come back with their
correct call. If they don't respond I try a 2nd time and even a 3rd
time. If they still have not come back with their call then I send NIL
and remove the qso from my log. What a waste of time and effort all
because they can't spend 5 seconds giving me their callsign again!
The question is WHY are they not responding to their call (or similar
call) with a ?
Do they not understand what I am asking?
Have they already left the freq. because they did not want to wait an
extra few seconds to hear me confirm the qso?
Did they not hear my request? (QRM, QRN, etc.?)
Did they not care whether I got their callsign correct or not?
I don't know.
So many times I send CL? and instead of their callsign they send their
report. Huh?
It's all frustrating.
On SSB I say "Callsign?" or "Callsign again?" Usually there is no
response.
And then I have to delete that qso from my log.
Now compound that with the incessant callers qrming my request for their
callsign and it
gets even more annoying.
Unfortunately, people with poor operating practices and not caring about
whether I get their call correct or not, also don't care that there in
now a KQ2M NIL in their LCR months after the contest. I don't know what
the answer is. There shouldn't be any people that don't respond to
"Callsign?" or "CL?" on cw.
73
Bob, KQ2M
On 2024-02-29 06:33, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
To all serious contesters:
I have no complaints. Overall I am pretty happy with my performance but
am
wondering about the growing list of "incorrect calls" that I have this
year.
I am always looking to improve.
I am 'about' where I am every big contest. 1.4% error and 4.7% score
reduction. I have seen it a little less, but this was a long test at
nearly
3900 Q's
It's the list of 38 "incorrect calls" I have that I am curious about.
I
mostly ran and was unassisted, so I need to work on copying calls
correctly(that much is obvious) . Some calls had more than one
typo/error in
them but as the runner I sent these busted calls back to the caller and
nobody corrected me?!
Is this because they are not affected(score-wise) if I butcher their
call?
(am I understanding that correctly?)
Anyone else seeing this trend?
Mike VE9AA (btw, I am not KE9AA, there are no VA9's, no 2x1 VE9 calls
and
VE8AA is not a contester)
Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
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