[CQ-Contest] Don't we need to change the sprint protocol?

[Doug Smith W9WI]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 07:26, Bill Coleman wrote:
> I call CQ. Someone answers. I send him my exchange. He sends me his, 
> but I miss something, like the number.
> 
> Right as he finishes, someone else calls. I sit there sending NR? NR? 
> NR? over and over, but they both ignore me. Soon the station is gone, 
> and I've got a busted QSO.

I think Bill has a valid point.  I don't think QSK would fix it, and it
definitely doesn't only happen when you pause.  

It's true that if you scratch the QSO, it's the other guy who gets
dinged.  On the other hand, you just wasted the time you spent making
the QSO only to delete it - time that's obviously precious during the
Sprint.  


-- 
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
http://www.w9wi.com