[CQ-Contest] Annoying trend

[John Geiger]

And I had one station say that he copied my call
incorrectly, even though he said it correctly, because
the name and state I gave him didn't match what he had
in the files, as he had the info for the previous
holder of this call.

73s John W5TD

--- Richard DiDonna NN3W <nn3w at cox.net> wrote:

> Hello from Istambul!
> 
> After 13 hours of flying and being sick yesterday, I
> finally got a chance to look at some contest-related
> email.  Wow.
> 
> I've received not one, not two, not three, but four
> emails asking me to confirm name and state
> information from the NAQP.  Obviously what they
> heard in the contest does not match what they're
> seeing on qrz.com so they're "confused".  I'll guess
> that either 1) I'll delete them or 2) tell them the
> day after the logs are due.
> 
> I was also a bit miffed by the fact that in at least
> three times during the contest I had guys seemingly
> confused by the fact that the name or the state I
> gave them did not match what was on QRZ.com.  And,
> interestingly, I had several folks, get confused
> when I didn't tell them my name was "Bubba" - the
> name I used last year.
> 
> I'm going to assume that this is not a major concern
> since most top caliber contesters rely on what they
> hear on the air when they work each station....Or is
> it??
> 
> Either way, perhaps a nudge or guideline stating
> that the use of callsign databases or the callbook
> should be discouraged during or after the contest is
> over is in order.  After all, its possible that some
> of these ops might someday become serious
> competitors, and we don't want prior tendencies to
> carry over...
> 
> 73 Rich NN3W
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