I suggest we'll be successful eliminating QSO B4 about the same time we get rid
of "please copy"...
73, Kelly
ve4xt
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> On Dec 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Roberts, Will <Will.Roberts@duke-energy.com>
> wrote:
>
> For someone you think you have worked before... Unless it is SS with its very
> long exchange...JUST WORK THEM AGAIN!!
>
> PLEASE follow John's advice below. I had this happen to me in the ARRL 160
> this past weekend. I had just gotten on the air and was working my 3rd
> contact, a well-known W8. He
> Send "QSO B4". I replied NO. He then took the time to say "You got my call
> wrong" instead of just sending 5NN MI ! As it turns out, I expect he was the
> one who got MY call wrong as K4NC
> was also active in the contest. It would have saved him a lot of time to have
> just worked me and moved on. If he had refused to work me and I had moved on,
> that first contact as well as
> a missed QSO with me would have been a NIL.
>
> 73,
>
> Will AA4NC
>
>
>
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 06:31:58 -0500
>
> From: "john@kk9a.com<mailto:john@kk9a.com>"
> <john@kk9a.com<mailto:john@kk9a.com>>
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> To: cq-contest@contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Is working the QSO B4 good on long term for
>
> us ?
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> That is unsportsmanlike conduct. Lets say we work early in the contest and I
> log you incorrectly as VA2EA, Later I call VA2EW and you won't work me.
>
> You get credit for the previous contact and I don't. It would have been just
> as easy to give me a report the second time. QSO B4 is not one of my macros.
>
>
>
> John KK9A
>
>
>
>
>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Is working the QSO B4 good on long term for us ?
>
> From: VE2TZT <ve2tzt@arrl.net<mailto:ve2tzt@arrl.net>>
>
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:27:56 -0500
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> It is after that bad experience that I have decided to systematically refuse
> the QSO's B4.
>
>
>
> After all, if my callsign is busted in the other guy log, I do not lose the
> points but he lose the points and if he answers ''NO'' when I send QSO
>
> B4 then I will work him without discussion.
>
>
>
> Interested by your opinion on that point.
>
>
>
> Gilles VA2EW
>
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