[CQ-Contest] Incomplete SS exchange

John T. Laney III k4bai at att.net
Tue Nov 8 05:23:33 PST 2011


In SS, a station running (keeping the frequency for now) misses a golden 
opportunity to advertise when he leaves the call out of the exchange.  
It seems a no brainer to me. Send the call in the order suggested, just 
like a radiogram.

For some reason, a dozen or so that I worked in SS sent the precedence 
after the callsign. For example #1 K4BAI B 54 GA instead of #1 B K4BAI 
54 GA.  That didn't slow me down, but it did interrupt the flow of the 
contest.  These seemed to be computer generated and I wonder if some 
logging program has a glitch that encouraged the exchange to be set up 
that way.  The operators either weren't listening to what their computer 
was sending or they don't know the code.  73, John, K4BAI.


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