[CQ-Contest] ID in NAQP

[Ed W0YK]

This is not about 2 radios.  On one radio, on one frequency it is unsportsmanlike to make a lot of successive QSOs without IDing, e.g., sending your call sign. Packet tells ASSISTED stations who is likely there.  UNASSISTED station have to wait for the ID.73,Ed W0YK
-------- Original message --------From: Jeff Clarke <ku8e at ku8e.com> Date: 8/19/24  10:44  (GMT-08:00) To: "CQ-Contest at contesting.com" <cq-contest at contesting.com> Subject: [CQ-Contest] ID in NAQP K9MA wrote :"For the first time I can recall, in yesterday's NAQP CW I noticedoperators making many QSOs between IDs. I suspect this is a consequenceof the new assisted category.  It is really annoying to those of usoperating unassisted. Please don't do that!"I'm confused. Don't understand what Scott means by "making QSO's between ID's" ? Isn't that what stations that do 2SBIQ and SO2R do?When you are copying the exchange on your CQ frequency you can call someone or send a CQ TEST on radio #2 as long as you aren'ttransmitting two signals at the same time. Many people operate this way even they are unassisted. The only difference betweenassisted vs unassisted is an assisted station can click on spots in the band map generated by a cluster and make QSO's. BTW the assisted classin NAQP isn't new. It was added in the August 2021 NAQP CW three years ago.Jeff KU8E_______________________________________________CQ-Contest mailing listCQ-Contest at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest