Tree,
If I understand what you are suggesting the sequence modification would be:
YOU: CQ N6TR/XX9 N6TR/XX9 TEST
ME: W4EF W4EF
YOU: W4EF 5NN 24
ME (CONVENTIONAL EXCHANGE): TU 5NN CA
ME (WEAK SIGNAL EXCHANGE): N6TR/XX9 N6TR/XX9 QSL 5NN CA 5NN CA
YOU: W4EF QSL 73 N6TR/XX9
If we were both at our home stations we could use the conventional
exchange (unless it was 2 or 3 hours past sunrise). If however, you are
portable XX9 chances are good you are immersed in a cacophony of QRN and
straining to copy me. Then it would be good to know that I am actually
answering you instead of another W6 that you can't hear because he is
running 5 watts to a top-loaded broomstick.
73, Mike W4EF..............
On 1/26/2026 9:09 AM, Tree wrote:
And again - I am frustrated that during difficult conditions, stations
won't send my callsign when I am CQing. Conditions this weekend were
horrible. I had someone in Florida call me - which I thought was
impossible - and decided not to work them when they did not respond to "who
are you working?" - as I thought for sure they were answering a European I
couldn't hear. I even did the same thing when someone called in from Texas
- that band was that bad.
73 Tree N6TR
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