[CQ-Contest] Questions on Pile-up Management

[K4RO Kirk Pickering]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 06:30:26PM -0500, VA3NR wrote:
>  My question is for those times when you can't pick
> out a full callsign, is it better to send a partial
> call (e.g. 1AW 5NN4) to keep the rhythm going 

Yes, usually.


> 2) Occasionally when I get the chance to run a CW pile-up
> I'll get callers who seem to mis-read my exhange to someone
> else as their own.  For example, I send  W1AW 5NN4  and besides
> the intended  W1AW  I also get some other station sending me a
> report.  If I just send  R TU  to continue the pileup then both
>  W1AW plus the mystery caller are logging me but I'm only logging
> W1AW.  The mystery caller isn't going to call me again in the test
> because he thinks we've worked and I've lost a potential QSO. 
> Is there a good way to recover these QSO's without breaking rhythm?

I would send W1AW's call a second time like "W1AW QSL TU DE K4RO"
Hopefully this would let the mystery caller know that you just
finished working W1AW, and not him. Sometimes an extra pause in
the rhythm will perk his ears up a bit too.

73

-Kirk  K4RO