[CQ-Contest] Use of di-di-dah-dah-di-dit in CW Contest

[steve.root at culligan4water.com]

OK....I call CQ and I have a weak station answering me, who then gets clobbered by an impatient S&P guy who sends "?" on top of the caller? That drives me nuts. Hold off on the "?" and wait 3 seconds for the next CQ please.

73 Steve K0SR
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Chudek - K0RC [mailto:k0rc at pclink.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2008 10:18 AM
To: k1kaa at arrl.net, 'CQ-Contest'
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Use of di-di-dah-dah-di-dit in CW Contest

That's another good contesting nuance you brought up Mike. If I am running and I get a "?" after my CQ, I immediately press the F4 key (my call). That is, if no one else is calling me. Why would you make the S&P station wait around for your CQ timer to trip off another round in 10 seconds or so. You've got a "customer" waiting right now. If I don't get an immediate reply from the "?" station after my F4, the other fellow has determined I am already in his log and has moved on. There's nothing I need to do but press the F1 again to start another CQ sequence. On the other hand, if I'm in S&P mode and tune to a station as he is finishing "test", if I don't hear anyone calling him, I'll drop a "?" on freq. If he comes back with a "?", I figure he is not interested in rate so I just tune on down the band. His loss. If there's a "?" sent and an immediate F4 returned, that's time saved on both ends. And time saved equals a higher rate. I don't understand what there is to get frustrated about. What has I missed? 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike DeChristopher, K1KAA" To: "CQ-Contest" Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Use of di-di-dah-dah-di-dit in CW Contest Some people get very frustrated when S&P'ers send a "?" after their CQ. You'll get the callsign in a second or two; I don't think it will kill the rate. In fact, sending "?" and waiting for him to send his call may take just as long. Same with phone weekends: saying "YOUR CALL?" usually makes the running op angry. There's a situation for everything, though. Or maybe "the other guy" only caught part of SQ5M's ..--.. and figured he heard a call. Either way, the problem would have been avoided if he just listened to the next CQ. RX first. -- Mike DeChristopher, K1KAA k1kaa at arrl.net http://k1kaa.413ma.org AR-Cluster node telnet://dx.413ma.org Tim Goeppinger wrote: > I was watching a video of SQ5M operating an Elecraft K3 during CQ WPX CW > tonight. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9mUBC-v-g > He is doing a fine job of S&P up and down 80M. At 1:12 in the video he > tunes across > the tail end of a CQ (just TEST at the end) Trying to be efficient, SQ5M > fires a > ? (di-di-dah-dah-di-dit) at the guy who is running. The other guy sends a > di-di-dah-dah-di-dit > right back at him! Why? > > I have seen this alot lately. Is this rude, or just plain stupid? Why > can't the runner just just send his call? > Wouldn't it be more efficient to send your callsign once, than have the > S&Per send his? > > If I encounter this situation again when I am S&P, I really am tempted to > keep firing ?'s back , until they send their %*# callsign. > > (steps down from soapbox) > > 73, > > Tim K6GEP > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > It’s easy to add contacts from Facebook and other social sites through > Windows Live™ Messenger. Learn how. > https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnHow > _______________________________________________ > CQ-Contest mailing list > CQ-Contest at contesting.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest > > _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest at contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest at contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest