[CQ-Contest] Fills and repeats

[VE2TZT]

Rowland,

Very nice description of our usual QRN/QSB nightmare.

I think that 3?9 is a good way to say what piece of information is missing.
Sometimes the guy is able to send several times only the missing symbol, it 
happened to me during this WAE, but unfortunatly, most of the time the guy 
prefers to just push the F2 key.
When I feel that the joke is getting too long, I modestly send manually QRN 
PSE QRS and it always works... it breaks the phase beetween the QRN/QSB and 
the sending of the missing symbol.

73,
Gilles VE2TZT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Rowland.Archer at gxs.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Fills and repeats


> Hi folks,
>
> While asking for "nr nr" over and over this weekend on WAE CW, it occurred 
> to me that I didn't know any "standard" practice for asking for the JUST 
> that one digit or letter I'm missing.  Nothing more frustrating than 
> something like this sequence:
>
> You:  K4XD ur 5NN 3<QRN>9
> Me:  NR NR?
> You:  5NN 3<fade>9, 3<static crash>
> Me:  AGN NR?
> You:  NR 5NN 3<fade>
> Me:   3?9 3?9
> You:  ur 5NN 3<crash>9 5NN 3<fade>
>
> You get the picture.  I keep hearing the stuff I don't need, and not 
> hearing that one bit of information I'm lacking.  Only once this weekend 
> did I hear someone try to specify the single digit he was missing -- he 
> sent "NR 3 NR 3?" to indicate he was missing the 3rd digit.
>
> I would think sending 3?9 would indicate "please just send the number 
> between 3 and 9" but it seldom works, people resend the whole sequence 
> most of the time, or send 5NN very slowly just in case I missed that part! 
> It is frustrating to hear the parts you already know coming through 
> clearly, knowing you would have the missing info if they were sending that 
> instead of what you already copied.
>
> Any advice from the brain trust? (Besides better antennas!)
>
> 73,
> Rowland K4XD
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