[CQ-Contest] Fair to the other guy

Tom Osborne w7why at frontier.com
Thu Apr 14 23:29:09 EDT 2016


Hi Bob

Sometimes it's not that easy.  For instance:

CQ de W7WHY

W1XXX

W1XX 59 OR

59 CT

R QRZ w7why

Now where did this guy send my call and how would I know if he got it right
or not?  73
Tom W7WHY




On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:47 AM, robert <wa1fcn at charter.net> wrote:

>
>         GM All
>
>                 With all the post about receiving, have you ever wondered
> if you tried enough
>                         to make the other station get YOUR call correct ?
> If you send your call and he
>                 comes back slightly off how many repeats should you try to
> correct him ?   Many
>                         times someone will get  my call slightly wrong
> then after a second try sometimes
>                he still sends my  wrong call then goes after someone
> else.   I will not get penalized but HE will.
>                           This is  what I call part of both players being
> fair to each other.  So give the other
>                 guy a second chance, when you know he did not get it
> correct the first time , do not
>                         just run off to the next station.
>                                     BoB WA1FCN
>


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