[CQ-Contest] Ending a Contest QSO on Phone

[Bill Coleman]

On 7/31/01 5:16 PM, Marty Tippin at nw0l at yahoo.com wrote:

>If it's your run frequency, a simple "QSL. QRZ?" is more than adequate 
>when the rate is high.

PLEASE NO! Please sent your callsign at every opportunity. I'd rather 
hear your callsign over and over than some useless "QRZed"?

>Everybody waiting to work you knows your callsign and you just
>annoy them by repeating it on every QSO.

NOT TRUE.

You can't assume that everyone who is there is going to wait to figure 
out what your callsign is, then wait patiently until it is his turn to 
QSO. That may be true for general DXing, but it is NOT true in a contest.

In a contest situation, a pileup is a very dynamic animal. People are 
entering and leaving the pileup all the time. Every time you disengage 
the mike, there will be new people on the other side. You can help 
YOURSELF by giving your callsign frequently. That way, people on the 
other side won't clutter up your pileup waiting to figure out who you are.

>Don't go to the opposite extreme,
>however, and *never* give your callsign. 

If you give your callsign with every QSO (or perhaps every other), then 
you avoid this situation.

>Plenty of DX does that and it's more
>annoying trying to figure out for 5 mintues who the station is than listening
>to the callsign on every QSO.

Why should he sign? Everyone in the pileup already knows his call, and is 
annoyed by him repeating it over and over....

>Unless you're a big-gun, you'll probably never have a pileup to work which is
>so big that it's going to make any significant difference how you end the 
>QSO.
>At most you might work 4 or 5 stations in quick succession before there's a
>lull and you have to return to calling CQ. 

Right, so there's little to no time to be saved by not signing. The QRZed 
you can dispense with at times.

>My personal preference is to not give my call between QSOs when I know there
>are several stations waiting to work me, but to include it when the rate is
>slow, just in case someone tuned onto the frequency in mid-QSO. Seems to work
>for me.

I'd prefer you sent it every time.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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