[CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

[K9MA]

Because, unfortunately, sometimes it works.

73,
Scott K9MA 

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Scott Ellington

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> On Apr 18, 2021, at 4:50 PM, Peter Chamalian <w1rm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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