[CQ-Contest] WW SSB - the corruptive influence of packet

[Alan Zack]

Yes, same complaint.  How much more difficult can it be to just say your 
call sign after each contact rather than QRZ?

Michael Tope wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
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>>(d) The contests would be better off without packet at all.  One option
>>   is always to turn it off and tune the radio instead.
>>
>>-- 
>>Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
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>The really annoying thing I found this weekend were the stations 
>who were only identifying every 5 or 10 minutes because they 
>had a steady diet of packet assisted stations feeding their pileups 
>who knew their callsign a priori. As a single-op unassisted, it's a 
>royal PITA when you are trying to make the most of your operating 
>time to have to sit on a frequency for 5 or 10 minutes listening to a 
>huge pileup and wondering if you really need that station for a 
>multiplier because he won't identify. 
>
>Packet can be fun if your just chasing DX, so I won't rain on 
>packet user's parade (sometimes I am a packet user), but I just 
>wish that the rare DX in the contests wouldn't assume that we
>are all using it all the time. Send your call each QSO like 
>ZD8Z/N6TJ does. 
>
>73 de Mike, W4EF.....................................................
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Alan Zack
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