[CQ-Contest] Possible lack of knowledge of the states of the union, and sloppiness in listening

[contesting at w2irt.net]

I feel your pain, Eric. My call on SSB is just awful. W2IRT. The 'i' is the
hard part. It packs no power whatsoever, and is regularly busted as RRT,
RIT, ITR and so on. It's a great CW call, but on phone it's atrocious. I've
never had any luck applying for a good-for-contesting 1x2 callsign,
unfortunately, plus I do like my call. But I really wish I had a better one
for SSB contesting.

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GO FRC!
Peter, W2IRT

www.facebook.com/W2IRT

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+contesting=w2irt.net at contesting.com> On
Behalf Of Eric Rosenberg
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:31 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Possible lack of knowledge of the states of the
union, and sloppiness in listening

Living/operating from the District of Columbia has its own somewhat unique
liabilities.

You'd be surprised at how many do not know that DC is a legitimate QTH
(although not an actual state) and mult in the contest they're participating
in! No, Washington, DC is *not* the state of Washington.

As a result, I often have to resort to "DC... DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA" or
"WASHINGTON DC "

Fortunately, the regularly active stations (KE3X, NN3RP, N8HM, 4U1WB and
myself) are known to many.

My call (W3DQ), DELTA QUEEN is often mangled. More often than not --
especially in domestic contests. I'm not comfortable with DAIRY QUEEN
(although lots of folks come back to me with those phonetics), so I'll
resort to variations using DENMARK and/or QUEBEC.

Yet another challenge!

73,
Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC



------ Original Message ------
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:38:09 +0100
From: <info at bokverket.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Possible lack of knowledge of the states of the union,
and sloppiness in listening

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Possible lack of knowledge of the states of the union.   Just one conclusion
- CW rules :-)

Sloppiness in copying  (VE9AA's QSL manager in Ontario).  Serves them right
:-)

Same in the CQWW when people log the default zone of someone who has moved.

73 from Sweden,

Goran, SM0DRD
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