Hi, Pete.
I totally agree with your examples and I could add to the list, although
I have myself used the one below on rare occasions. In a pileup with
lots of overlapping callers, sometimes I'm pretty sure ... but not
positive ... that the running station came back to me. My choices then are:
a. Give my report, have him reply with "TU", and then wonder if it was
me he replied to or someone else giving their report while I was giving
mine. If I end up not being sure about the QSO I don't log it, and if
that costs the other guy a NIL I'm certainly not doing him any favors.
b. Send "??" and make him repeat my call and report. Perfectly valid
and probably the proper thing to do, but I always feel it costs him
extra time to do that.
c. Send my callsign quickly and then my report. If his "TU" matches
the timing of my report I'm confident that it was actually me he
intended to call. I've thought about this at some length and, right or
wrong, it always seemed to me to be the least waste of the other guy's time.
By the way, when I'm running and someone does that to me, I assume one
of three things:
1. The guy is an idiot and programmed his macro to send his own
callsign before every report.
2. He misread me sending his callsign in the QRM of other callers and
thinks I may have it wrong even though I had it right.
3. He isn't absolutely positive I came back to him and doesn't want to
waste my time by sending "??" and making me repeat everything.
You never really know how well you're being received at the other end,
or what is the least ambiguous way of making the contact with any
particular individual, or how proficient the other operator may be.
Sometimes we get it wrong even when we're trying to do it right.
73,
Dave AB7E
p.s. Of course, it often happens that two stations are running on the
same frequency without being able to hear each other, and then the S&P
station may have to send the callsign of one of the running stations
before his report.
Pete Smith wrote:
>
> When S&P, be sure to send your own call before the exchange, even if the
> other station got it right. Make the other person wonder.
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