[CQ-Contest] I hate ITU prefills

[Ria Jairam]

Hmm. Not really. What's my exchange? It's not NA. It's NAY and I'm worth 10
points instead of 3.

Yet when I make a call, other stations will sometimes say "TU" before I
finish, which means that they probably logged me incorrectly as NA.

73
Ria, N2RJ

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:14 AM John Geiger <af5cc2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about the CQMM contest, where the exchange is the continent?  I like
> that contest, but there is nothing to copy in the exchange that the call
> doesn't give you.
>
> 73 John AF5CC
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I strongly agree, Paul.  I consider contests like CQWW to be about the
> > dumbest around, and to require the least operating skill. If you get the
> > call right, you're done except for QSOs from countries with more than one
> > zone (and for US operators, that's a pretty small fraction). And even
> then,
> > how hard is it to copy a 1-2 digit number?
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
> >
> > On 6/29/2017 1:09 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
> >
> >> Why do we persist in exchanging known, redundant information?
> >>
> >> Contest sponsors need not complain about pre-fills when the
> >> exchange is known, with near certainty, in advance.  How
> >> about introducing some unknown element in contest exchanges?
> >>
> >
> >
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