[CQ-Contest] Were a lot of guys calling you by name in the contest?

[K3BU at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/2/04 9:19:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
n4zr at contesting.com writes:
I believe 
Writelog has a similar capability and N1MM can read and display the 
TRMaster format. 

This name thing during the contest is IMHO redundant and who needs it. If 
things are reaaaaly slow and you know the operator's voice, than maybe, but many 
times the calls are operated by guests or multies, so names don't match 
anyway. Sometimes it could be a dead guy, like I get with N2EE when someone says hi 
Nikola (Tesla RC) - 60 years too late :)

Better if phone operators concentrated more on proper and clear announciation 
of their calls. Sometimes you have to listen trice to decipher the call and 
when weak signal, even more. 
Partial checks are "helping" wrong way sometimes too. Some insist that I am 
K2BU and not K3BU. 
And then there are overcompressed, overmodulated, wide as a barn door signals 
that paralyze the bands. Some stations are so overcompressed that they are 
louder when not talking, just the noise. Add to it "overequalized" audio between 
1600 and 2000 Hz and you wonder what is wrong with your RX. It is not that 
hard to check and know what your signals sounds like before you embark on 48 
hours of "torture".

Yuri, K3BU.us