[CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

[Peter Chamalian]

OK so this weekend was the CQMM DX Contest.  A gentle affair run by the
CWJF, a Brazilian CW group.  No pressure, no big prizes.

 

So here I am calling CQ MM.  I get 4 or 5 callers, all jammed on top of each
other.  I manage to pull out two letters.  Let's say AW.  So, I send AW.
Three callers.  I can her the one AW in there and two non-AW callers.  So, I
send AW again.  Nope, three callers.  So, I just pause, hoping the AW caller
will call again.  Nope, nothing so I send AW a third time.  Guess what.  No
AW.  I gave up.

 

So, here's my question.  If your call doesn't have AW in it and you are
calling someone who replies AW, why do you keep calling?  It makes
absolutely no sense.  Even if I were P5RM, let me work the guy I want so I
can quickly move on to the next rather than slowing me down by calling like
that.

 

Ya know, I've been in this game for a heck of a long time.  Been there, done
that, got the t-shirt as it were (and the certificates and the plaques and
the records).  So why?

 

 

Pete Chamalian, W1RM

W1rm at comcast.net