While making S&P passes across the band in the contest this last weekend
there were several DX stations who simply gave their callsign again at
the end of a contact ... no TU, no "dit dit" or other common
acknowledgement.
Dumb idea.
If signals were weak or there was lots of QRM, it was impossible to know
if the DX station had actually logged the contact or simply given up on
it, especially if he had already asked for a fill. When that happened
and I couldn't raise the DX quickly again through the pileup to verify,
I simply didn't log him and moved on. Beats me why anyone would risk
lots of NILs and the resulting loss of points just to save a few
milliseconds, especially when sending their callsign at the end of every
other contact would have accomplished the same thing or more.
73,
Dave AB7E
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