If I am operating ARRL DX contest at home I just work the handful of
no-mult-no-point domestic guys to get them out of the way. Out of 2000+
QSO's, only two such cases this year, better than some previous years!
A multi-multi would worry about setting a bad precedent though.
I can't understand ignoring callers in an ARRL DX contest on 160, unless the
operator is working a run for DX. Generally stations are sitting there
endlessly CQing over and over again with only sporadic contacts.
Seems to me it would just be a whole lot better, as long as there aren't DX
callers, to just tell the person they don't count.
Also, if a person is trying to be helpful, even if they are mistaken and
being a pest, I see little reason to be rude or nasty. We can't all be
perfect, and most of us make mistakes at one time or another. This is not a
busy contest (on 160) to an extent that occasional mistakes by people trying
to be helpful becomes an issue with score.
73 Tom
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