On 3/27/00 9:17 PM, Jon Ogden at jono@enteract.com wrote:
>And what really frustrated me is best described by the following:
>
>KE9NA: CQ Contest from KE9NA
>Other: Tango Foxtrot
>KE9NA: Tango Foxtrot full call
>Other: Italy Bravo Zero Juliet Tango Foxtrot (I made up this call just now)
>...SILENCE.....
>KE9NA: IB0JTF 591245
>
>This happened numerous times. The guy was given the mic to give his call
>and my report but only gave his call. And there was no need to do it that
>way. It made for an extra transmission for him and for me.
As a little pistol, I disagree.
Ills of the last 2 aside, there's no way a CQing station is going to get
a report from me until I'm reasonably sure he has my callsign right. Why?
Well, it was hard enough to break the pileup the first time. All I need
is for the station to say "KA4LU 59 1234 QRZ?" Then I have to break the
pileup AGAIN to get my callsign corrected. Holding out on the report is
the only way I can keep the other station's attention.
>I must say I have been more successful breaking pileups since being taught
>to give full callsigns and I have begun teaching others as well. Perhaps
>someone can learn from my observations here.
I always give my full callsign, but the other station doesn't always
receive it.
Seems like the world would be a better place if
a) calling stations always gave their full calls
b) cqing stations always gave their calls after every Q
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
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>From Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc@dialup.mplik.ru Tue Mar 28 18:17:29 2000
From: Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc@dialup.mplik.ru (Igor Sokolov)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] The fourth dupe
References: <000701bf98c3$076d1fe0$6afaf5d0@ni8lraex.com.raex.com>
Message-ID: <00a201bf98e7$0729a3e0$c100fea9@dialup.mplik.ru>
> Wouldn't want to be the log checkers going through his log +ACE- At
least
> it wasn't as bad as the guys on 10M working CBer's from around the
> world :-)
I would not be surprised to find your call in his log put as KH8R. There is
Russian letter X that translates correctly into H. There is also Russian
letter H that translates into N. So my opinion - he could easily work you 3
times plus one dupe :)
73,
Igor, UA9CDC
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