[CQ-Contest] Funny/strange things heard in 'WPX

[Chuck Chandler]

I read it as "No Hate DX!"

73 de Chuck, WS1L

chandlerusm at gmail.com


On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:57 AM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> I really liked that “NO-DX” callsign.(NO8DX)  I laughed every time we
> worked.  I didn’t know it was you, but big signal from you.
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> Obviously not in the Florida Condo, Jim, hi!
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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> From: jimk8mr at aol.com [mailto:jimk8mr at aol.com]
> Sent: June 1, 2021 10:02 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Funny/strange things heard in 'WPX
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> From: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Mon, May 31, 2021 4:55 pm
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Funny/strange things heard in 'WPX
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> One station..a SV1something insisted his call was SV1something/QRP and
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> time I went back to just the base callsign (let's call him SV1XXX but I
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> made that up) he would not give me a serial #.....This happened 3 or 4
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> until I said something like "NO, just SV1XXX" and then sent him the report
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> again. Over and over he sent /QRP, /QRP, then SV1XXX/QRP.  He came back a
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> few times every 5 minutes, until he just didn't.  Was I being a jerk?
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> maybe, but I will never, ever perpetuate the sending of CALLSIGN/QRP in a
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> contest.  "/QRP" is not your call and I won't help keep that trend going.
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> During the week, sure. During a contest, no.  My loss? Maybe.
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> I worked the same guy, and had just as much trouble getting his call out
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> I worked one guy.I forget his exact call.but something like
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> AH2M/WN6..wouldn't it have just been easier to send "AH2M"?  Doesn't
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> AH2M/WN6 translate to simply a AH6 for a prefix? (Hardly seems worth it)
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> The WPX rules require one to have a callsign matching his DXCC country.
> Otherwise scoring issues - 1 point vs 3 points - arise.  Since AH2 is not
> in the USA, he had to send something. I don't think his "/**#"  needed to
> match his USA call area, however.
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> Thanks for all the QSOs with me, hiding out in the Witness Protection
> program as NO8DX.  (Does the "WP" in "WPX" stand for "Witness Protection"? )
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> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
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