[CQ-Contest] signing TEST at the end...not so bad

[Kelly Taylor]

I’m sitting here amused at all the comments.

If someone having the audacity to send “… test” at the end of a CQ is the worst thing in your life, you’ve got a pretty good life. Beats “please copy”!

Sheesh.

73, kelly, ve4xt 




> On Dec 4, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> 
> Doug has nailed it from my point of view.  Every big contest at least
> several times, I'll stumble across someone with just their call
> 
> so I don't know if:
> 
> A)  They are an SO2R op just keeping their run frequency warm while they
> work a mult on radio 2 ( I am ok with this method)
> 
> B)   or They are just sending CQ TEST AB1CDE and I missed the "CQ TEST" part
> 
> C)   or they are calling someone.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> If I am S&P I don't have time to wait around, so some of the time (it
> varies)if I don't hear anyone that they are calling, I call them and then a
> small portion of the time I find out it's just as in example "C" above and
> now I have called a caller. OOPS.  I always feel a little bit bad as I have
> just QRM'd someone and worse still, I do not hear the other station they are
> calling so it's not even like I can stick around and work who they are
> attempting to work.  I move on. (with silent apologies)
> 
> 
> 
> If everyone used CQ CALLSIGN TEST, then I (or anyone else) would never call
> someone that's calling someone else.  I think the RTTY guys have it right
> tagging CQ on the tail end of their CQ's
> 
> 
> 
> Am I impatient? Of course, I am in a contest !- and at least 2/3 of the
> time, it's someone seeking a QSO.
> 
> 
> 
> Good explanation Doug.
> 
> 
> 
> dit dit, 
> 
> 
> 
> Mike VE9AA
> 
> 
> 
> I don't think signing TEST at the end is necessarily so bad.
> 
> 
> 
> If I am calling CQ, I might send: CQ KR2Q TEST or even just KR2Q TEST.
> 
> 
> 
> When someone tunes across me and all they hear is KR2Q, how do they know if 
> 
> calling
> 
> someone or if I'm calling CQ?  Adding TEST at the end lets everyone know I'm
> 
> 
> looking a Q.
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> 
> 
> No?
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> 
> 
> And really, saying that it messes up RBN/skimmer...really....that matters?  
> 
> You're supposed
> 
> to be copying stuff yourself, right?  Maybe that was a joke?
> 
> 
> 
> de Doug KR2Q
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> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> 
> Keswick Ridge, NB
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