[CQ-Contest] The Calling Disease...

[Doug Renwick]

I was trying to think of a name to call the constant, unending calling, but
you came up with a good one ... calling disease.  For me this disease was
much worse than the unIDs.

I sometimes wonder if these stations ever listen.  Quite a number of times
the dx station would come back to me, I would only catch parts of my
callsign.  I had to assume he had my full callsign correct because the
constant calling US stations were louder than the dx.  So for my report I
sent my callsign again and then the standard report, hoping the dx had my
correct callsign.  I heard some other stations using the same practice.

Is there a cure for this disease?

Doug

>-----Original Message-----
>
>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
>