[CQ-Contest] Are you a Clueless Cluster Clicker?

[Ria Jairam]

One reason that cluster clickers could just enter erroneous callsigns are
the ops who just keep calling QRZ instead of giving their call. They're
encouraging people to use often busted cluster data by not identifying
frequently. I try to ID after every QSO but even if I don't, I don't go 10
minutes without IDing. I don't even go 2 minutes without IDing. Maybe we
should be encouraging fewer of this behavior by not working them when they
don't ID?

Ria
N2RJ


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:33 PM Mike Tessmer <mtessmer at cinci.rr.com> wrote:

> I've read a number contest reports from the recent ARRL DX contests where
> DX
> ops share their annoyance with the large number of dupes - all the result
> of
> erroneous cluster spots.  I've experienced the same in previous DX
> operations.
>
>
>
> This past weekend I listened to an exasperated S54ZZ on 80m tell caller
> after caller "We've worked before, we've worked before" all because he was
> erroneously spotted as S51ZZ.  He'd give his call....and the guys just kept
> calling.  And when he'd tell them they had already worked they'd just say
> "59 <state>".  VE3DZ/6Y2T (BY2T) and the P40R (PV0R) ops both noted over
> 500
> dupes in the CW contest - all because of erroneous cluster spots.  The
> erroneous spots are bad enough, but what is worse (pathetic, really) is the
> large number of the regular, high scoring multi-op stations and
> assisted/unlimited stations that feed these piles - guys who have been
> around for a long time, and presumably might have a clue.  Plenty of other
> "calls" made the highlight reel this past weekend:  JX5J (ZX5J), TT3Z
> (TO3Z), FK0N (5K0N), FJ2T (PJ2T)
>
>
>
> The question is why?  Why do you just blindly pounce on any spot without
> considering whether or not it's likely that is really the call on
> frequency?
> Are you just too lazy to process that it's unlikely that there would be a
> station QRV in JX, in the middle of winter, with a commanding signal on 15m
> beaming southeast?  Are you just too lazy to question a loud, clear BY on
> 40m, beaming south, when it's high noon in Beijing?  Are you just too lazy
> to question the likelihood of a really loud TT3 station, again beaming
> south/southeast...you know, because there's such a plethora of activity
> from
> TT that they now issue special prefixes for the ARRL DX contest?
>
>
>
> Are you a Clueless Cluster Clicker?
>
>
>
> The floor is yours.  Justify your actions!
>
>
>
> (Please spare us the lectures on how/why occasional dupes may occur.  That
> is NOT AT ALL what is happening here.)
>
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>
> 73, Mike K9NW
>
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