I must admit, when I hear contest exchanges going on on the bands, I'm curious.
So my first step is to either listen (regardless of the mode) to see what's
going on, or I go to the web and look at one of the contest calendars and find
the rules.
I must also admit I find this resistance quite amusing. How do you explain the
SS exchange to someone at 30wpm on CW, or what a qtc is, or that you've gotta
qsy after a qrz in a sprint? N1RR just wrote today that we should leave the
big well established contests as is, and maybe that's a great idea. But I
don't see what's wrong with trying something new out in either less established
contests or in new contests.
Respectfully,
73 de Al, KE1FO
----- Original Message -----
From: John Laney
Sent: 5/10/2004 10:44:53 AM
To: aa0cy@QUADNET.NET
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RE: Meaningful Contest Exchange
> KE1FO says explaining an unusual contest exchange is easy, but he must
> be talking about on SSB. It is very difficult on CW. Even some
> otherwise good CW operators can't seem to copy anything but callsigns
> and the expected exchange on CW. The casual operator can't be expected
> to understand the explanation on CW and it would take forever to get the
> info across.
>
> Also, before we go changing the exchange so that the sent information
> varies with each QSO (other than signal report information), I'd want
> some assurance from contest logging programmers that our existing
> logging programs can easily accomplish that. I don't know how they
> could, but guess TR must be able to do so in view of the Internet
> contest rotating exchanges. I don't think that is possible with NA and CT.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
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