[CQ-Contest] The Calling Disease...

[Peter Chamalian]

I think what's really needed is for this issue to be discussed at clubs and
at big stations.  If the leaders come to agree that this practice is not
useful then they need to communicate it down to the rank and file.  We all
want to be first in the pile up which is childish - but we all can get the
DX if we allow the DX to work quickly and unimpeded with having to work hard
to get a call through the idiots calling.

For the first time that I can remember (and I've been playing this game for
a very long time), DX stations were going split in WW so they could be
heard.  It didn't stop the calling but at least you had a chance to hear who
the DX was coming back to. 

Pete, W1RM

-----Original Message-----
From: Collins, Graham [mailto:CollinG at navcanada.ca] 
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 10:16 AM
To: Peter Chamalian; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] The Calling Disease...


I noticed this trend on the weekend too. It is not new but it does seem to
be getting worse.

Having an open and frank discussion will not likely change anything as
though who are guilty of the practice are not likely pay attention to or be
part of the discussion and will just carry on regardless.

Cheers, Graham ve3gtc

 

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter Chamalian
Sent: November 28, 2011 08:38
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] The Calling Disease...

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

 

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