[CQ-Contest] Frustration this weekend.....

[John Geiger]

Yes, the lack of IDing bothers me as well.  The other pet peeve I have is 
stations in state QSO parties on SSB who don't use phonetics.  You would be 
surprised how hard it is to get a correct callsign because so many letters 
sound alike.  This doesn't seem to be near as much of a problem in the 
bigger SSB contests.

73s John AA5JG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Mattson-->K1ZR" <k1zr at comcast.net>
To: <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 5:57 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Frustration this weekend.....


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> Is it me or is the issue with DX signing their call sign once every 1-3 
> minutes (sometimes more!) getting extremely frustrating? The worst example 
> was a station in the Africa region who decided to run split on 15M and 
> informed callers of their callsign and RX frequency every 1-3 minutes 
> causing a pileup of callers on their TX frequency and a swath of stations 
> sending 'Up', 'Up', 'Up'. Seriously, not everyone relies on packet spots 
> and it would be great if the DX could sign their call every 4-5 q's. This 
> is where bogus spots on the cluster cause major problems as I'm sure that 
> those who simply point and shoot to a spotted mult work 'em and move on 
> before actually hearing the station's call. Help!
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> -Shane K1ZR
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