[CQ-Contest] The Calling Disease...

[David Levine]

I had this happen a few times. It was most frustrating when I was working
E51MAN for an all time new DXCC and a PD4 station kept sending his call
over and over covering up me be able to copy E51MAN sending his report to
me and him sending his QSL/TU back after I sent my report. I actually
emailed E51MAN (N7OU) earlier today to see if I was actually in his log. My
log is already submitted and I wouldn't change it, but I want to know if
I'm in his.

It was a fun weekend regardless!

73,
K2DSL

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Doug Renwick <ve5ra at sasktel.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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