[CQ-Contest] Your Call?

[Tom Carrubba KA2D]

Simple solution. Don't work them!
I usually S&P and get decent rate going, I will not work a station who does 
not ID in a timely manner.
Sure, it diminishes my score but it also affects theirs..

So, no ID, no qso

73 -Tom KA2D

-----Original Message----- 
From: Drew Vonada-Smith
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 6:14 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Your Call?

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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