[CQ-Contest] Your Call?

[Steve Lott]

Drew,

I agree 100%

One way to "fix" this is Not Log the station even after you worked them
and make notes to the sponsor as why select stations might be shown as a
Nil in your log

It would take time but if more than a few ops did this
they would get enough Nils that affect their scores
and then they might learn the lesson !

Cheers!
Steve
KG5VK


http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Drew Vonada-Smith <drew at whisperingwoods.org
> wrote:

> All,
>
>
> Key clicks and GJ0KE were indeed annoying this contest.  But what drove me
> nuts, and I am surprised not to be reading it from others yet, was the "No
> ID while running" situation.  ***It has gotten much worse***.  The practice
> seems to be most evident in SA and the Caribbean.
>
>
> I heard *many* stations not IDing for a dozen QSOs.  I heard one not ID
> for over 15 minutes - I felt compelled to stay there and measure it.  This
> destroys the rate of people doing unassisted S&P.  Many good contesters in
> the Caribbean make great rates and ID every or nearly every QSO.  So this
> practice is a way to improve your rate by a tiny fraction at the cost of a
> HUGE impact on others. This is not within the spirit or rules of any
> contest.  It is poor sportsmanship at best.
>
>
> To make it worse, a few stations (and I will name names from my notes if
> asked) refused a fill even when working a station asking "Call?"  And I
> heard one pointedly answered "NO" when a dozen in the pileup repeatedly
> asked for "CALL?"  This isn't just bad practice, it is spitting in the face
> of others who operate skillfully.
>
>
> I've actually had contesters tell me proudly how efficient they were
> because after each QSO in a big run, they skip the TU and their call and
> just send a dit.  We need to change this mindset.
>
>
> Perhaps no rule changes are needed.  But I call upon all of you to join in
> publicly noting that this isn't acceptable.  And I call upon sponsors to
> get tough on abusers.  If no reasonable attitude is forthcoming, the
> solution is to require a callsign every QSO.  That may be seen by some as
> "extreme", but IMHO, this is best practice in any case.
>
>
> 73, Drew K3PA
>
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