[CQ-Contest] World Wide Digi DX Contest Results.

DXer hfdxmonitor at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 15:31:24 EST 2020


This is certainly a big part of the problem, and as implied, not caused 
by the contest.

Some may still be using old versions of the software that won't pick up 
the sequence from the RR73. Others are on a mission to enforce their 
standards, like here on the list, they are hams too after all. LOL

I have actually tested this in the past. I have on occasion 'fed' the 
other guy with RR73 for a few cycles, then changed to the 'standard 
definition', and the contact completes right away. Yes, propagation may 
have been a factor once, maybe twice, no... make that three times plus, 
but not always.

Being a 'live and let live' kind of a guy, I let them do what they want, 
and I do what I want. I have 'enjoyed' some loooong incomplete contacts 
since adopting this behaviour. ROTFLM

What a great hobby!!!!

73 de Vince, VA3VF

On 2020-01-12 15:14, rjairam at gmail.com wrote:
> That whole problem has to do with what constitutes a completed contact.
> 
> Some insist on a 73 both ways. I get NIL from quite a few in regular FT8 
> (non contest) as they insist on the final additional 73. I usually use 
> RR73 which saves a sequence and thus 15-30 seconds.


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