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Re: [CQ-Contest] Sending 'test'

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Sending 'test'
From: Barry <w2up@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:25:50 -0700
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Personally I dont do it, but if you tune across and just hear a callsign, you don't know if that station is calling someone or just ended a cq and is waiting for a call.

Barry W2UP

On 11/27/2018 11:48 AM, Chris Tran GM3WOJ wrote:
Hello all

Thanks to everyone who worked GM2V in CQ WW CW – the world’s #1 CW contest!

I was puzzled as to why many stations waste time by still sending ‘CQ <callsign> 
Test’ i.e. the stock macro from most of the contest software writers.

It’s a major contest weekend, many stations are using contest callsigns, the CW portions of 
the contest bands are full of signals, so ‘Test’ seems completely redundant to me. 
No-one would try to have a rag-chew on CW during CQ WW CW, or am I wrong?


73   Chris
GM3WOJ / GM2V



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