[CQ-Contest] Copying exchanges in ARRL DX CW

[Yuri]

Yes, there are lots of things that "not ego-centered ops" can do to ease the life of other (less experienced) contesters... For instance, they may sign .../6 to make sure that others copy the "CA" correctly. Some of those "not ego-centered ops" would even change their calls to reflect their real QTH.

What is really impossible to do is to teach some people to think when they log a BY station at their lunch time on 15 meters during a sunspot minimum. And even more impossible to make them think twice before spotting that BY station right away!

A common mistake that a lot of US stations make in a DX Contest nowadays - they don 't listen to the call, even if the signal is not fluttering. They just point, click and send exchange.
Of course, it's easier to blame the CQing station for not ID'ing often enough, but why nobody blames "the other guys" for not listening enough???

Yuri  VE3DZ

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> YES! Garry, NI6T, has allowed our CQP group to use his call several times. We don't send his call at the speed of light. Our club call is W6BX. I insert half spaces in both calls to make it easier to copy. W6JTI mostly works QRP and mostly CW. He carefully inserts half-spaces in his F-key messages. I watched him do it setting up for our team expedition to CM79 for ARRL VHF. GOOD ops who aren't ego-centered do stuff like that.
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> A common mistake that EU stations make in DX contests is to bang away at 35+ WPM when conditions are causing lots of flutter over a path. Why is it that these guys think that THEIR signal doesn't have the same flutter at my QTH that mine does at theirs? Did these guys sleep through the fundamental principle of reciprocity?
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> 73, Jim K9YC
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