[CQ-Contest] The Calling Disease...

[Mike N1TA]

Pete,

I've taken to recording this whenever I hear it (even mid-contest). I don't
quite think it's my place to contact these stations and say "listen to
this-", but maybe in the future we will have an outlet for constructively -
and anonymously - improving operating practices.

-- 
Mike DeChristopher, N1TA



On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Peter Chamalian <w1rm at arrl.net> wrote:

> 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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