Yes. Honestly. Sometimes it works like that.
And that’s all I have to say about that
73
On Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 02:32:57 PM EST, Mike VE9AA
ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
Honestly Ron?
Either the loudest guy or the guy farthest off my frequency, either low
or high (but still inside my 500Hz passband), that sends his call ONE
TIME.
P44W was worked (as far as I know) off my EU beam heading 5 times this
weekend, and he was QRP. He always called off frequency and as far as I
know I think he likely got through on the first call every single time
to me all weekend long. John, W2GD knows contesting. Also, from the
flip side, you should ask him how he does it when he's QRO or LP in the
CQWW's etc. and running a seething pileup. I doubt he waits around for
guys to call and call. You just reply overtop of those incessant
callers.
THAT's how it works.
Yes, occasionally it'll happen that all the cluster clickers are zero
beat and the loudest call will get deciphered on the 2nd go around, but
I try not to let that happen. It's a contest. Who's got time to listen
to guys call 2, 3 or more times?
VE9AA
------ Original Message ------
From: wn3vaw@verizon.net
To: cq-contest@contesting.com; ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca
Sent: Tuesday, February 18th 2025, 02:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] repeating callsign - what the heck?
Consider this Mike:
You call "CQ TEST" (in one form or another).
5 dozen people who haven't worked you all call you back immediately.
1 person sends their call either a second time right after the pileup...
or once, delayed.
Now, what call are you likely to notice first?
73, ron w3wn
On Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:43:25 AM EST, Mike Smith VE9AA
<ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
I've done the ARRL DX CW many times. (and do most of the majors;
CQWW,WPX,WAE,RDX many many times)
Is some institution in EU (or some popular EU logging software)
instructing
EU's to call you with their callsign twice?
(or if I am running, they'll again put their callsign in their message
when
they come back to me yet one more time?
I am hesitant to even complain (make note of is more like it) as they
made
up 86.6% of my log this weekend (TU EU!!) but this weekend more than
ever
before in my decades on the bands did I have (what seemed like) every
8th or
9th caller doing this at times(maybe more at times). I ran anywhere
from
34wpm to 40wpm (mostly 38wpm) this weekend and especially on the high
bands
I was coming back to the loudest guy just as soon as they had sent their
callsign ONCE. Occasionally when my rig was just going into TX, I'd
catch
part of a CW character telling me they had sent their call again. No
response (I doubled with them)
Thank goodness for the "=" key in N1MMLogger+ (repeats last
message sent) I
about wore it out.
Thoughts?
VE9AA “NB”
Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
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