I don't mind the confirmation. My relatively slow S&P "rate" does not suffer
because of it and that way I know my generally weak signal was copied correctly
If the other station doesn't mind wasting their time, it's ok with me.
Just a different perspective.
Al
K2AL
Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 16, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Ed W0YK <ed@w0yk.com> wrote:
>
> It assures that the station is actually working me and not a station also
> running on my frequency that I don't copy.
> I get NILs for logging someone else's pile-up.
> 73,Ed W0YK
> -------- Original message --------From: Bill Turner <dezrat@outlook.com>
> Date: 2/12/18 10:08 PM (GMT-04:00) To: RTTY Reflector <rtty@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] WPX
> ------------ ORIGINAL MESSAGE ------------(may be snipped)
>
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:46:03 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> Ah, yes...sending me back my number. First time I've ever seen [QSL:
>> 239] or whatever. Glad I'm not the only one who thought that was
>> weird...and a waste of time and characters.
>
> REPLY:
>
> /Amen to that. An even bugger waste of time is to send MYCALL DE
> HISCALL when replying to my CQ. I know my call, just sent yours
> please!!
>
> There may be times when sending MYCALL is useful but I can't recall
> when it would be. :-)
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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