[CQ-Contest] Please Explain This...

[Jim Rhodes]

Sometimes I have just worked the ones calling out of order, but not log
them. They may never notice, but I feel I have delivered a little karma.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021, 21:03 K9MA <k9ma at sdellington.us> wrote:

> Because, unfortunately, sometimes it works.
>
> 73,
> Scott K9MA
>
> ----------
>
> Scott Ellington
>
>  --- via iPad
>
> > 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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