[CQ-Contest] Ending a Contest QSO on Phone

[k8do]

I contest for fun, especially when I am vacationing at a DX location, and I
do S&P so I can take a break anytime I feel like it... I'm handing out a new
multiplier for many stations.... When I cruise across a pileup and hear the
tailend QRZ, I pause for the next qso to catch the call so I can work him...
When that qso ends with QRZ also, I twist the dial and move on... His loss
and I could not care less...

Denny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr at arrl.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Ending a Contest QSO on Phone


>
> 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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