[CQ-Contest] Re: What Is a Contact?
Dale L Martin
kg5u at hal-pc.org
Tue Aug 20 12:59:24 EDT 2002
> But if you intend to be efficient about S&Ping, you should NOT be sitting
> there long enough to get frustrated by his lack of IDs! Tune on, come back
> later, dial him into a Quick Memory, plot him on your bandmap. BUT KEEP
> WORKING STATIONS. Contests (like life) are too short to get your coax in a
> knot over stuff like this.
I like that....get your coax in a knot....
and I do tune on and come back from time to time.
> The worst thing you can do is be one of the loudmouth louts who yells
> "WHAT'S YOUR CALL?" You're just interfering with those who
> already CAN work
> the guy, and the law is quite clear on the legality of premeditated
> interference. These folks are also hypocrites of the highest order, since
> they don't include their callsign in their missive. Perhaps we need a rule
> about that, too.
>
Yessirreebob. There's nothing like poor operating practices (the
hypocrites) piled on poor operating practices (the no-ID'ing station) to
make it a fun pileup.
Some/many/most of those asking his call may also be those who could and did
work the guy...but, then asked the question over and over and over again
because they don't know his callsign either!
I like the idea of all contests having a simple rule requiring both calls
within a QSO.
Seems to me to be more efficient for all concerned.
73,
dale, kg5u
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