[CQ-Contest] BOGUS RATES: Pot calling the kettle black?

[Tom W8JI]

> By far,the biggest "fault," (if you want to use such a term) is on the 
> part of the callers,
> not the guy running the pileup.
>
> How many guys, who are tuning across the band and run into a pileup, 
> actually give the
> call of the guy are calling?  5%?

There is NO rule you have to give the other fellow's callsign. That went 
away years ago, I think around the 1980's.

The rule is you have to give YOUR OWN callsign either at least once every 
ten minutes or when you end a contact. I don't have to give my call when 
initially transmitting, but I always do when I leave and always within ten 
minutes after I start.

At least that was what was explained to me years ago when I questioned the 
meaning of "communication".  The wording used to be "transmission", not 
"communication", and used to require an ID at the start of a transmission or 
series of transmissions if I remember the old rule correctly.

Not giving a callsign is dumb anyway. I'd bet that results in a lot of busts 
or time delay.

73 Tom