[CQ-Contest] "Please copy my number"

[Kelly Taylor]

To me, anything that is NOT part of the exchange is a bad thing.

Particularly during bad QRM. So "Please copy" and "check" could easily be
confused as part of the exchange, and perhaps "4 M XY4XYZ 89 Colorado"
becomes "354 M XY4XYZ 68 Colorado"

Similarly, it seems redundant, once the station whose CQ you're answering
gives your call correctly, to then give the call in phonetics during the
exchange. I already have it, so if you're giving it to me again in
phonetics, are you trying to tell me I have it wrong? During bad QRM it is
hard to get that straight.

If you come back and breeze through your callsign without phonetics, that's
a pretty good indication I read your call back to you correctly.

Granted, W 7 kbek kbek has a point, but Whiskey Bravo One Germany Quebec
Radio a thousand or so unnecessary times adds up in a hurry. (No offence
Mitch, just using the longest callsign I could think of).

And please, please, please: when it's bad condx, do NOT use cutesy
phonetics. Use the standard ones. If the band is open and clear and you want
to be an Xcited Termite, fine, but when the bands are in as bad a shape as
they were this past weekend, Curious George just gets into trouble.

73, kelly
ve4xt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan C. Zack" <k7acz at cox.net>
To: <K-Zero-HB at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>;
<CQ-Contest at contesting.com>; <Georgek5kg at aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "Please copy my number"


> How about the old phrase, BE ADVISED........  Good it went by the
> wayside.  Time to retire PLEASE COPY.... also!
>
> K0HB wrote:
> >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > I think people learn this during Field Day.  I've never hear it used
> > outside of
> > > these two contests.
> >
> > I think it proves that Sweepstakes still has a connection to it's roots,
> > and that habits are persistent and passed on to the next generation.
> > Sweepstakes was originally a traffic handling contest, and "Please copy
my
> > message #1, Precedence ......" is standard traffic handler protocol.
> >
> > Yes, it slows things down a tad a few times during the course of the
test,
> > but maybe that's not all bad either if it feels good to the "old timer"
> > saying it.
> >
> > 73, de Hans, K0HB
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