[CQ-Contest] "Please copy my number"

[n4gi at tampabay.rr.com]

I've got a tortoise-like phoneSS rate-sucker to add:

4) Using phonetics for the "middle" callsign in the exchange.  This practice can double the exchange time when working someone with a bigger callsign.  Obviously, if you've gotten this far, both parties probably should know who they're in the process of working, right?

 
Blake N4GI


----- Original Message -----
From: Georgek5kg at aol.com
Date: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:17 pm
Subject: [CQ-Contest] "Please copy my number"

> I'd like to offer the following comments after having just 
> finished SS Phone:
> 
> 1.)  How many times did we hear "please copy my number"?  I don't 
> want to be 
> too critical about anyone who uses this phrases, but I'd also like 
> to say that 
> extra wording tends to slow down the process.  It's not uncommon 
> to hear 
> "please copy my number" perfectly well, only to miss the number.  
> Had the op not 
> "used up" clear air space to say the words, perhaps the number 
> would have come 
> through instead.
> 
> Simply replying to the calling station with his call followed by 
> the serial 
> number spoken as individual numbers is both adequate and efficient.
> 
> 2.)  "Good luck in the contest".  Now, lets face it, a little good 
> natured 
> bantering in a phone contest can be enjoyable and certainly break 
> the boredom.  
> But "programming" oneself to say "good luck in the contest" after 
> every 
> contact is going overboard IMHO.
> 
> 3.)  Saying serial numbers.  I find that saying numbers like 360 
> as "three 
> hundred sixty" is confusing.  Upon hearing "three hundred" I tend 
> to type ahead 
> and key in "30".  When I hear the "sixty", I then have to back up 
> and key in 
> the "60".  Ok, this may be my awkwardness as an op, but I much 
> prefer to hear 
> the numbers are said individually.  360 said as "three six zero", 
> for example.
> 
> The same thing goes for the "teens", fifteen, sixteen, etc.  I'd 
> much prefer 
> to hear "one five",  "one six", etc.  
> 
> Leading "zeros".  I find it best if the ops do not try to add 
> leading zeros 
> unless, of course, if they pronounce the numbers individually, 
> such as "zero 
> one five".  For me, omitting any mention of the leading zeros is 
> preferred.
> Just some thoughts.
> 
> 73, Geo...
> 
> George I. Wagner, K5KG
> Productivity Resources LLC
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