[CQ-Contest] Thing that drive me nuts

[Christian Schneider]

Am 03.12.2016 um 15:13 Kevan Nason quoted IARU paper:
> "Why is the word *contest* the last word in your contest CQ? Because by doing
> so, someone who happens to tune across your frequency at the end of the CQ,
> knows there is someone calling CQ contest on that frequency."
What is wrong with this reasoning? If you tune quickly you 
often/regularly happen to hear only a call (or a suffix distinctive 
enough to get the call). If there is no "test" at the end of the 
transmission by a running op he simply saves time at the expense of 
tuning ops who can either blindly call or have to wait = NOT saving time.
At least one can argue that leaving out "test" reflects the shrinking 
number of tuning ops. Time to explain it to RTTY ops, too, to omit "CQ" 
at the end of their CQs.

And why "dit dit" instead of "tu" when it is for saving time? "Dit" is 
enough. Why use an old habit from conventional QSOs if it is for time 
saving.

73 Chris DL8MBS