[CQ-Contest] The Calling Disease...

[Peter Chamalian]

A disease for sure.  Calling no matter what the DX sends is commonplace
during DXpeditions but now it's run wild in CQ WW.  The DX comes back to W4
and I hear N9, K6, W5, etc., calling and calling.  Why?  How do we stop this
stupid practice?

 

I don't name names, but there were a few stations who were perpetual
offenders this past weekend.  Sure, we all make a mistake and call out of
turn, but doing it constantly is like a little kid who says me, me, me.  Or
the woman who used pepper spray at a Wal-Mart to push her way to the front
of the line.

 

We all want the QSO.  But causing the DX station to take more time to dig
out the call and make the QSO just slows everything down!  

 

Let's have a discussion of this practice and reverse this trend!

 

Pete, W1RM