[CQ-Contest] Ending a Contest QSO on Phone

Tue Jul 31 18:42:59 EDT 2001

Nat,

You need to keep what you say to a minimum yet still communicate.

In some cases, this may mean you need to say: 
"Roger, Roger, Roger, QSL, Thanks and QRZ? WZ3AR".

Hopefully, there won't be many times when you need to do this.

In my experience at V26B and elsewhere, a simple, "Thanks, WZ3AR" or "QSL, WZ3AR" or when running at a high rate, just "WZ3AR" should be sufficient.

When you're running, you need to do the pretty much the same thing on every qso so the stations you're working recognize your qso confirmation pattern.  You don't want to vary what you say significantly or the stations you're working may think that you did not copy their information and end up QRMing the next guy you want to work.

73,
Bob N5NJ

Original Message:
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From: Nat Heatwole heatwole at clark.net
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:34:55 -0400
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Ending a Contest QSO on Phone

I've been thinking a lot about this topic lately and I thought that I would
get some opinions from the reflector. Assuming that you wish to confirm the
QSO you just made (via. 73, QSL, thanks, etc.) and you wish to sign your
call and go QRZ do any of the following generally work better than the
others when the rate is high on phone? What about when the rate's low?

1. Thank You, WZ3AR Contest
2. Thank You, WZ3AR QRZ
3. Thank You, QRZ WZ3AR

Could you delete words like "Contest" or "QRZ" when the rate is high for
example advantageously? Does another confirmation other than "Thank You"
tend to work better? This may seem trivial to some, but since it occurs so
often over the course of a contest and since there are so many different
ways to do it I thought that it might be worth looking further into. All
opinions welcome.

73, Nat, WZ3AR
<heatwole at clark.net>

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>From Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com  Tue Jul 31 23:49:12 2001
From: Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com (Leigh S. Jones)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:49:12 -0700
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Ending a Contest QSO on Phone
References: <20.14067f04.27f35c3d at aol.com> <00da01c11a00$45ed8240$f101dc0a at direcpc.com>
Message-ID: <022301c11a13$05ddd750$ede3c23f at kr6x.org>

Regardless of whether the rate is low or the rate is high, any
information being transmitted to the station involved in the previous
contact (i.e., thank you, roger, etc.) should be placed in the
beginning of the transmission and should serve the dual function of
making it obvious to stations tuning across the frequency that you
will soon solicit a contact.  This first portion of the transmission
should probably be very short -- one or two quick syllables. All
subsequent content sent during the transmission should solicit a new
contact, and your callsign should be the last thing sent.  This last
portion of the transmission should vary in length with slightly longer
transmissions during low rate periods and shorter transmissions during
high rate periods.  Slightly longer transmissions are desirable during
low rate periods because you are not soliciting new contacts while you
are listening for responses, while quite short transmissions are
desirable during high rate periods because the time spent calling CQ
while a new station has already found you is wasted (i.e., you cannot
listen for responses while you are soliciting new contacts).

Your choice of phrases may be affected by a number of things.  Always
choose words that you are capable of transmitting loudly and clearly.
This may be influenced by factors like your level of speech
compression (with high levels of speech compression, the words "speech
compression" may be difficult to understand), your regional dialect,
your foreign accent, your speech impediment, those sores you get in
your mouth by biting your tongue and cheeks while you call CQ faster
than your mouth can move properly, etc.  Look for deflection of your
amplifier meters when you talk, and don't say "deflection"

Above all, be more brief than I'm being right now.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nat Heatwole" <heatwole at clark.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:34 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Ending a Contest QSO on Phone

>
> I've been thinking a lot about this topic lately and I thought that
I would
> get some opinions from the reflector. Assuming that you wish to
confirm the
> QSO you just made (via. 73, QSL, thanks, etc.) and you wish to sign
your
> call and go QRZ do any of the following generally work better than
the
> others when the rate is high on phone? What about when the rate's
low?
>
> 1. Thank You, WZ3AR Contest
> 2. Thank You, WZ3AR QRZ
> 3. Thank You, QRZ WZ3AR
>
> Could you delete words like "Contest" or "QRZ" when the rate is high
for
> example advantageously? Does another confirmation other than "Thank
You"
> tend to work better? This may seem trivial to some, but since it
occurs so
> often over the course of a contest and since there are so many
different
> ways to do it I thought that it might be worth looking further into.
All
> opinions welcome.
>
> 73, Nat, WZ3AR
> <heatwole at clark.net>
>
>
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