This year's contest was unusual for me. I run 100W into an 18 ft
vertical. I also have an awful callsign for CW: VE3HLS, which gets
mangled into SLS, HLI, HRS and other variations. I spend a LOT of time
repeating my call and all three of the N1MM macros with my call have the
HLS suffix slowed down by a few wpm.
This year, I operated with the same setup from my parents' home as I
look after my elderly Mother who fell and fractured her pelvis
recently. I sent out far fewer repeats than in the past. Most people
nailed my call on the first try (in fact, most QSOs were established on
the first call) and if they asked for a repeat it was because they
copied HLS but not the prefix! A complete reversal of past experience.
This must be a better location to operate from than my home QTH.
73,
Ken Alexander
VE3HLS a.k.a. HLI, HRS, HRI, SLS, SLI....
On 28/11/2011 5:18 PM, David Levine wrote:
> John,
>
> I think about this a bit too. I mainly do what you did if it's a pileup and
> he's banging out calls at what seems like 20 a minute. I'll often send just
> my call again for him to confirm. I also have a macro button in N1MM that
> sends "DSL DSL" since I often hear bsl or dil or ds or some combo that
> doesn't seem like he got it right and send it after my call if I didn't
> hear it properly, depending on conditions. Sometimes I just send my call
> again and sometimes I send just the report.
>
> Being a little guy @ 100w and dipoles, I appreciate the effort of the DX
> station to catch my signal and don't want him dinged because I'm not
> pushing 1.5KW into a stacked array pointed at his house. I try and give
> them at least 1 shot (and often a couple) if they aren't getting my call
> because they are doing the hard part.
>
> K2DSL - David
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:39 PM, n4dxi@arrl.net<n4dxi@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> During the CQ WW DX there was a lot of QRN and QRM....exchange was
>> something like...
>>
>> Me....S& P up the band, hearing a DX in an exchange, checking he's not
>> a dupe, waiting, then....
>>
>> DX: "...TU" at 35 wpm machine gun cw.
>>
>> Me: "N4DXI" at 20 wpm contest slow.
>>
>> DX: "N4DX(crackle pop) 5NN 3A" still at light speed but I really don't
>> expect him to slow down.
>>
>> Me: Did he get my call or not? Sounds like he missed it so I reply,
>> not wanting to break his rythm, I repeat my call and add my exchange.
>>
>> "N4DXI 5NN 5"
>>
>> DX: "TU"
>>
>> Unfortunately, I still don't know if he got my call. I guess I could
>> have just come back with my call and forced him to reply with my
>> call....but if he had it right in the first place, he'd think I was a
>> lid or be confused
>> or he may have already gone to the next call.
>>
>> Because I sent my call again, do I trust him to get it right without
>> his acknowledgement? I especially want him to get my call correctly
>> for later LOTW match and my growing DXCC count.
>>
>> What's the best way to handle this situation?
>>
>> 73....John Bescher, N4DXI
>>
>>
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