Rich,
I can understand the issues with the name, but the state part ... no.
Regarding the name, I think it comes down to personal "branding" /
recognition. That is, by and large, to the core contesting community
you are Rich, K6LL is Dave, W4AN/SK was Bill, K4NO is Greg, and so on
throughout the community.
Case in point, before the NAQP Saturday, Greg, K4NO and I were thinking
of a name to use. He was thinking "Nick" for Nick Saban, the new head
football coach at Alabama. Consequently, I was thinking the same thing
when he mentioned it. So it stuck and we were stuck with it for the
duration. The "branding" comes in where there were numerous times we
had to correct operators who, by default, entered "Greg" in their log.
Me? Well, I hope I don't get "branded" as "LID."
73,
Roger ...
KA9EKJ
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Richard DiDonna
NN3W
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:37 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Annoying trend
Hello from Istambul!
After 13 hours of flying and being sick yesterday, I finally got a
chance to look at some contest-related email. Wow.
I've received not one, not two, not three, but four emails asking me to
confirm name and state information from the NAQP. Obviously what they
heard in the contest does not match what they're seeing on qrz.com so
they're "confused". I'll guess that either 1) I'll delete them or 2)
tell them the day after the logs are due.
I was also a bit miffed by the fact that in at least three times during
the contest I had guys seemingly confused by the fact that the name or
the state I gave them did not match what was on QRZ.com. And,
interestingly, I had several folks, get confused when I didn't tell them
my name was "Bubba" - the name I used last year.
I'm going to assume that this is not a major concern since most top
caliber contesters rely on what they hear on the air when they work each
station....Or is it??
Either way, perhaps a nudge or guideline stating that the use of
callsign databases or the callbook should be discouraged during or after
the contest is over is in order. After all, its possible that some of
these ops might someday become serious competitors, and we don't want
prior tendencies to carry over...
73 Rich NN3W
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