[CQ-Contest] Here's an idea...

[Yuri VE3XB]

Always amazes me. 

Some smart guy comes up with "brilliant" idea and he starts testing everyone else skills but not his own... It's like QRP ops keep complaining about  big gun stations that couldn't copy their tiny signals but never call weak stations themselves. 

As a member of QRQ club I can copy CW at 40 wpm and higher speeds but I would definitely make sure that I copied EEMIO right and will ask for the repeat. Nothing wrong with that, especially if you weren't expecting this kind of joke during contest rush. It just waste of valuable time, nothing more. On the other hand if I had nothing better to do I would come back with some fancy name (like Enine, my old friend's name, for example) and see how well the joker will copy it. Not sure he will.

I guess that most people care about how to get contest exchange copying easier for their party, but looks like some think otherwise, having fun at someone else expense...


73 Yuri VE3XB

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob Shohet, KQ2M

A lot time ago in the CW Sprint, I used EEMIO (sent at 40+ wpm of course  :-) and Scandalla amongst other names.  EEMIO was pretty funny – almost impossible to copy correctly at that speed – it was a true test of operator skill and honesty.  Skill to get it right the first time and honesty to ask again for it when they weren’t sure that they got it right.  As you would expect, the best ops got it right on the first or second try, most of the rest either needing MANY repeats (clearly expecting Bob) or just faking it and sending “r’” or “tu”.  I used other unusual names as well to “test” the ops.  I was more interested in having fun with that than achieving a good score.

Once in the mid-80’s, on the way back home after a YCCC meeting in Mass., I operated for an hour at Hal, W1NN’s station in CT, and worked K8CC on two bands with two different names.  When I got back to eastern Long Island in NY (where I was living at the time), I then worked K8CC again on a 3rd band using a different name from another state.  So I worked Dave a total of three times - from two different states on three bands and with three different names (one name per band).

Dave being the FB op that he is, correctly copied each name change and state change.  I’m pretty sure that Dave still remembers that contest.   :-)

73

Bob KQ2M