[CQ-Contest] Rising IQ This Year

[David Kopacz]

If you needed ZONE 37 , and the station was gining 59937...

Why wouldnt you call ?

You would be wasteing operating time while you waited for him to ID

[KY1V-->>]  ... and you are wasting everyone else's time when you send
CL? CL?, particularly the DX station. Listen first, then transmit!



VA3DX

Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rising IQ This Year


> If I don't hear the DX station give his/her call sign, I don't call.
> Even if I followed a spot from the cluster, I can only presume the
call
> sign using the frequency. It is each operator's responsibility to
listen
> first, and then call the desired station only after identifying the
> station using the frequency.
> 
> Why would anyone do anything different?
> 
> It wouldn't hurt my feelings if packet clusters were banned altogether
> in contesting.
> 
> David ~ KY1V
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:47 AM
> To: n2ic at arrl.net
> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rising IQ This Year
> 
> I've (mostly) solved that problem by replying  with cl? and not
sending 
> my exchange until he responds with his call.  That usually works, but 
> sometimes the  non-IDer sends TU or ditdit anyway, as in reality,
there 
> is no exchange to copy in this contest.  If so, he winds up with a
ding 
> for N-I-L.
> 
> Barry W2UP
> 
> Steve London wrote:
>> It gets real interesting when you work the zone 33 station without
> knowing his 
>> call. You send "5nn4 cl?", and all you get is dit dit. So, you say
> piss on it 
>> and spin the dial...there's lots of other zone 33 stations signing
> their calls. 
>> And then, after the contest, the same zone 33 station tells you that
> you are 
>> being unsportsmanlike for costing him a NIL penalty. Very funny !
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve, N2IC
>> _______________________________________________
>>   
> 
> -- 
> 
> Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA   
> 
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