[CQ-Contest] Leading Zeros etc.- I hate'm !

[Jukka Klemola]

Wow !
Newcomers !
Comb your hair, brush your teeth, straighten up your signal and remember to
smile.

They are into contesting if we let them learn the zero stuff, among some
other crooked ideas the experienced have developed.


73,
Jukka OH6LI


2016-03-31 4:26 GMT+03:00 Jim Cassidy <jc_ki7y at q.com>:

> I had a couple of stations who would not confirm the Two but kept on
> saying no and repeating Zero Zero Two.  And some even go as far as 0002.
> KI7Y
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 1:39:03 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Leading Zeros etc.- I hate'm !
>
> In Phone or CW contests.  Especially later in the contest when a lot of
> folks are sending 538, or 887 or something and some really weak guy under
> the QRM comes by, you B-A-R-E-L-Y get his callsign, then he gives you a
> ZERO-ZERO-TWO...Can't folks just say "TWO"?.....Does it have to be
> ZERO-ZERO-TWO, or ZERO-TWO?.....If the rules said your serial # had to be
> at
> least 3 digits, then I would understand.
>
>
>
> I hate them just as much in CW contests.
>
>
>
> My other related pet peeve is if I am running (or not) and the weak stn
> (under the thick QRM sends me a #......let's say it's 123 (CW or SSB, makes
> no difference) and I am not quite sure of the number, but figure they hear
> me better than I hear them, so instead of asking for a repeat I send back
> to
> them "123?" or say it..ONE-TWO-THREE ?(with an interrogative inflection in
> my voice, or I might say "Was it 123?)...and then THEY send (or say)
> ONE-TWO-THREE again, but there is still that 20/9 splatter monster next to
> you, knocking the heck out of you.
>
>
>
> You know what I think? I think that I must have botched the # and need to
> start again, cuz' it's not 123.....please, for the love of all things
> contesting, say "ROGER ROGER ROGER" or on QSL QSL QSL , or OK OK OK OK. or
> on CW, send RRR...don't make me start over, cuz if you are repeating
> something I have to assume I have some part or all of it wrong.
>
>
>
> There.
>
>
>
> I feel better now.
>
>
>
> I think I did too much SSB this weekend.  Need some CW to fill my veins.
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA, eh?
>
>
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
>
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