[CQ-Contest] Call copying confusion

[jpescatore at aol.com]

Hey, Bob - If you work me and I log you as W3SKK, I lose the Q, not you, in most contests! The CW log checking rules are below.
Back a few years when we remotely operated K4VV's FB station, we tried various schemes to not be copied as K44V -half spaces seemed to workand their didn't seem to be much skimmer impact.
73 John K3TN
CQ Log Checking Rules Excerpt:
Stations Copying Your Exchange Incorrectly - This is a list of contacts where the station you worked copied your exchange incorrectly. You do not lose credit for these contacts. They are provided for your information. 
Stations Copying Call Incorrectly - This is a list of all contacts we 
could identify where the station you worked copied your call incorrectly. 
You do not lose credit for these contacts. They are provided for your 
information. If you have many similar errors, you should concentrate 
on ways to send your call differently that may be easier for others 
to correctly copy.

Message: 3
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 17:12:30 +0000
From: W3HKK at roadrunner.com
To: "'topband at contesting.com'" <topband at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: 160 contest; dits and dahs; propagation
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Interesting comments!

I specifically listened at my SR but heard no JA's.

Also typically in this contest at certain hours I get a steady stream
of W6, W7 replies - many surprisingly strong. This time it was less
than 20. The West was fairly sparse, there were many cracks in the QRM
wall, and it seemed most sigs were from the NE, Mid-Atlantic regions.
4 Land is usually a big contributor to the log, but again this time
much less so. 

Probably goes to show just how telescopic propagation can be on TB, ie
spotty. Re: DX: I looked for every DX spot and heard none from EU. The
Carrib was about it. No CA or SA ( other than XE.) Or Pacific other
than KH6. 

Dits and dahs: My CQ CW Contest submission feedback results get hit
pretty hard by penalties, and one of the major errors is the other guy
logging me as SKK - so now I try to repeat it an extra time, slowing
way down on the H. I thought I might have a sending problem with my
7610 memories, but now chalk it up to noise/qsb/haste to move on to
the next guy. I do hear and appreciate when the other guy slows down
his call. Really helps me get it right by minimizing guesses. 

Worked KH6 around 11:30 pm local time here..a bit of a surprise, and
then later saw a spot for KL7 but he was buried in the noise and never
got him in the log. Usually hear them well around my midnight and
sometimes before my SR. Nothing else heard from the Pacific or JA,
even though I had worked JA two mornings before.


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