[CQ-Contest] SS CW question

[Rick Lindquist, WW3DE]

Sorry, Steve. I misread the intent of your comment. 

The station replying should send the call sign of the other station, of
course, but the station answering is, indeed, under no specific obligation
under the rules to send the call sign of the station he/she came back to. 

I choose to do so anyway. 

When a station replying to my CQ sends my call sign back to me, I then know
whether he/she got it right in the log. This past weekend, several did not,
and I then could send a quick correction.

As for including your own call sign as part of the exchange, the rules
specifically obligate participants to do this. Nonetheless, each year I
encounter several stations that do not. Some send just a suffix, but that's
not a "call sign" as I read the rules.

Rick / WW3DE

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve London
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:16 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SS CW question

On 11/08/2010 08:14 PM, Rick Lindquist, WW3DE wrote:
>> This business of sending the other station's call with the exchange is
>> a relatively new phenomenon in SS (and other domestic contests, I
>> note). The only time I will send the other station's call is if I
>> detect there is ambiguity...For example, if two guys are running, very
>> close in frequency, and they both respond to my S&P call. Otherwise,
>> sending the other station's call is a waste of time for both of us.
>
> Huh??? Waste of time? Sending the other station's call sign has been a
part
> of the SS exchange for as long as I can recall - going back some 30 years


I respectfully disagree. IMHO, here is a perfectly acceptable SS QSO:

CQ SS CQ SS WW3DE SS
     N2IC
N2IC 321 B WW3DE 70 DE
     TU 456 B N2IC 68 NM
TU WW3DE SS

73,
Steve, N2IC
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