[CQ-Contest] Let's eliminate "QSO B4"

[ve4xt at mymts.net]

I suggest we'll be successful eliminating QSO B4 about the same time we get rid of "please copy"...

73, Kelly 
ve4xt 

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> On Dec 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Roberts, Will <Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com> wrote:
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> For someone you think you have worked before... Unless it is SS with its very long exchange...JUST WORK THEM AGAIN!!
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> PLEASE follow John's advice below. I had this happen to me in the ARRL 160 this past weekend. I had just gotten on the air and was working my 3rd contact, a well-known W8. He
> Send "QSO B4". I replied NO. He then took the time to say "You got my call wrong" instead of just sending 5NN MI ! As it turns out, I expect he was the one who got MY call wrong as K4NC
> was also active in the contest. It would have saved him a lot of time to have just worked me and moved on. If he had refused to work me and I had moved on, that first contact as well as
> a missed QSO with me would have been a NIL.
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> 73,
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> Will AA4NC
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> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 06:31:58 -0500
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> From: "john at kk9a.com<mailto:john at kk9a.com>" <john at kk9a.com<mailto:john at kk9a.com>>
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> To: cq-contest at contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Is working the QSO B4 good on long term for
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>        us ?
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> That is unsportsmanlike conduct. Lets say we work early in the contest and I log you incorrectly as VA2EA,  Later I call VA2EW and you won't work me.
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> You get credit for the previous contact and I don't. It would have been just as easy to give me a report the second time. QSO B4 is not one of my macros.
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> John KK9A
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> Subject:        [CQ-Contest] Is working the QSO B4 good on long term for us ?
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> From:   VE2TZT <ve2tzt at arrl.net<mailto:ve2tzt at arrl.net>>
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> Date:   Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:27:56 -0500
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> It is after that bad experience that I have decided to systematically refuse the QSO's B4.
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> After all, if my callsign is busted in the other guy log, I do not lose the points but he lose the points and if he answers ''NO'' when I send QSO
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> B4 then I will work him without discussion.
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> Interested by your opinion on that point.
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> Gilles VA2EW
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