[CQ-Contest] Thing that drive me nuts

[Steve London]

On 12/02/2016 11:47 AM, Matt Murphy wrote:
> Speaking of things that drive me nuts:
>>
>>Sending an additional "TEST" at the end of a CQ.  IE "CQ TEST N1IX N1IX
>>TEST"

> I do this sometimes in an attempt to generate more RBN spots, since RBN
> considers TEST equivalent to a CQ. It adds enough information to the end of
> a CQ to allow me to be spotted even if the skimmer didn't copy the CQ I
> sent at the beginning.

No ! From a CW Skimmer perspective, it is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Look at this example.

CQ TEST NQ6N NQ6N TEST
N2IC N2IC

You have now generated two skimmer spots - one for NQ6N from "CQ TEST 
NQ6N NQ6N" and the other for N2IC from "TEST N2IC N2IC"

73,
Steve, N2IC