[CQ-Contest] Operating practices heard in SS SSB

[Tom Haavisto]

Hi Art

I also heard one guy giving out numbers over 2K Sunday evening.  That said,
if one is new to SO2R, and you make a mistake, you can "loose" a number.
What happens is a number is assigned to one radio when you start a QSO.
Start another QSO on the other radio, and it gets assigned the next number.
If you end up loosing the QSO on the first radio for whatever reason, the
number is lost.  I am sure there are other ways to mess up as well,
resulting in unrealistic numbers being given.  See what happens when the
results come out.

Remember - you must give A serial number - it is not a requirement that you
use EVERY number in sequence.

Tom - VE3CX



On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com> wrote:

> One running station, with a sort-of familiar call, gave me NR 2656,
> Prec B, at on 1726Z  on Sunday/22 (that's 20-1/2 hours into the
> contest, right?).  I was alert enough to realize that it was WAY
> higher than any other number I was getting, so I got him to confirm
> it.  Wow!  I looked him up in the 2008 SS SSB results to see how he
> did.  Huh?  Not there!  I look forward to seeing his reported score.
> And I'll really be ticked if I get dinged for miscopying the number.
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