[CQ-Contest] CW Exchange

[Gerry Treas, K8GT]

If there is a question in my mind whether he got my call correct, I will, when going back to him, send my call twice, that gets his attention.  Then I usually get a confirmation at the end.  If you only send it once and there is QRM/QRN, he may think that you are just one of those that regularly send their call with every QSO.

73, Gerry, K8GT


---- David Levine <david at levinecentral.com> wrote: 

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John,

I think about this a bit too. I mainly do what you did if it's a pileup and
he's banging out calls at what seems like 20 a minute. I'll often send just
my call again for him to confirm. I also have a macro button in N1MM that
sends "DSL DSL" since I often hear bsl or dil or ds or some combo that
doesn't seem like he got it right and send it after my call if I didn't
hear it properly, depending on conditions. Sometimes I just send my call
again and sometimes I send just the report.

Being a little guy @ 100w and dipoles, I appreciate the effort of the DX
station to catch my signal and don't want him dinged because I'm not
pushing 1.5KW into a stacked array pointed at his house. I try and give
them at least 1 shot (and often a couple) if they aren't getting my call
because they are doing the hard part.

K2DSL - David

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:39 PM, n4dxi at arrl.net <n4dxi at aol.com> wrote:

> During the CQ WW DX there was a lot of QRN and QRM....exchange was
> something like...
>
> Me....S & P up the band, hearing a DX in an exchange, checking he's not
> a dupe, waiting, then....
>
> DX:   "...TU"  at 35 wpm machine gun cw.
>
> Me: "N4DXI"  at 20 wpm contest slow.
>
> DX: "N4DX(crackle pop) 5NN 3A"  still at light speed but I really don't
> expect him to slow down.
>
> Me:  Did he get my call or not?  Sounds like he missed it so I reply,
> not wanting to break his rythm, I repeat my call and add my exchange.
>
>        "N4DXI 5NN 5"
>
> DX: "TU"
>
> Unfortunately, I still don't know if he got my call.  I guess I could
> have just come back with my call and forced him to reply with my
> call....but if he had it right in the first place, he'd think I was a
> lid or be confused
> or he may have already gone to the next call.
>
> Because I sent my call again, do I trust him to get it right without
> his acknowledgement?  I especially want him to get my call correctly
> for later LOTW match and my growing DXCC count.
>
> What's the best way to handle this situation?
>
> 73....John Bescher, N4DXI
>
>
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