[CQ-Contest] is it OK to ask what prefix were looking for with a needed Multip on cluster ?

[Zack Widup]

Well, you have to learn somewhere and if you don't know, it isn't a dumb 
question. It's certainly not encouraging to brand-new contesters to be 
told they're dumb for asking. I do all I can to encourage new contesters.

I remember my first ARRL DX contest in 1993. I had an old DXCC countries 
list that was seriously outdated.  I had no idea what I was working - 9A, 
T9, S5, 4N ... none of those were in the book.  So I just worked them and 
asked later. I didn't even have a computer then, so I called ARRL and the 
DXCC desk told me what the prefixes were.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Steve Lott wrote:

> during SS this week-end one of our team members asked in an announce msg
> what the prefix or call might be for a NT
> That we were in need of for a sweep.
> 
> One response was a callsign to look for and another was that we were dumb
> for asking and should know the prefixs we need
> 
> what is the consenus of the group here ???
> 
> I feel it was a safe question and sense we are allowed use of cluster since
> we are multi-op, no harm or foul
> 
> Do any of you strongly disagree ?
> 
> BTW we ended up getting called by another NT station from what we were told
> to look for during a run
> 
> and near the end of the contest by another that stated they were looking for
> LA (Louisiana)
> 
> 73
> steve
> KG5VK
>