Ok, I gotta reply-
I have been to a couple of serious contest operations, one of them a
multi-op.. I have ALWAYS been under the impression that I should use the
full call!
When you're loud, why should you waste your time with the "yankee oscar"
crap.. Just say the full call..
I'm not saying I'm not guilty of using the last two, but hey, I'm still
young, and young people make plenty of mistakes. But the main thing is that
you LEARN from your mistakes.. Now, I'm gonna REALLY try HARDER to keep the
"net" side of me from coming out when chasing DX and running rates in a
contest!
Good luck!
20 more days until W9NIU has to put up with me at the station,
and my parents won't see me for weeks at a time!!
-Cedrick "yankee oscar"
At 08:00 AM 7/30/99 , Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>I can't believe that Hans K0HB (I think) was the only one who mentioned
>this, but getting a partial call and having to go back for a fill is really
>tough in any contest logging software if you're running rate. When I hear
>a call, the FIRST thing I do is type it in and hit SPACE. This checks for
>dupes, but also if it's a needed mult and whether I want to pass the
>station to another band. If I just get "last 2", I will have to SHIFT-TAB
>(tricky key sequence), then HOME to go back to the beginning of the call,
>then type the rest in. Also, we're not all touch-typists (I've seen some
>great CW ops who can't type worth a darn), and except for "+" and "INSERT",
>most people won't use any other keys in the course of a normal QSO besides
>the letters and numbers.
>
>In all, this really screws up the rhythm, and I can GUARANTEE that there is
>no way that Jeff N5TJ would have worked 457 in an hour doing this.
>
>73 - Jim AD1C
>
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Aurora, Illinois
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