[CQ-Contest] unscrupulous behavior

[John Geiger]

I was thinking that spotting a non-IDing station as P51DX or something like 
that would get them plenty of requests for their callsign from the stations 
they were working.

73s John AA5JG

----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:53 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] unscrupulous behavior


> Bill, W4ZV said:
> [snip]
> An unscrupulous person (not me!) might discourage this by
> intentionally spotting non-IDer's calls incorrectly by a dit or
> two.  Such as BY5A instead of 6Y5A, or ER8A instead of EF8A, etc.  :-)
> [end snip]
>
>
> Maybe...but a person who wanted to get the point across might mis-spot 
> them by one
> dit or dah, WHILE STILL PLACING THEM IN THE CORRECT ZONE (unlike your 
> examples).
>
> Then BOTH parties might better get the message...make the runner ID and 
> make the
> caller actually listen for the call.  Otherwise, too easy to copy the 
> mismatched zone, assuming
> they actually listen at all.
>
> de Doug KR2Q
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