[CQ-Contest] Acking Sprint QSO's

[Jim Brown]

On 2/5/2024 5:06 AM, Barry Jacobson wrote:
> you would say TU QRZ W6FB. 

QRZ in this situation is a time waster. If you have had multiple callers 
for the QSO we just finished, TU is the right response. If not, TU W6FB 
is all that is needed.

That let's the previous guy know that
> you copied him correctly, and let's the next guys know when it's time to
> jump.
> 
> In the sprint, you are not allowed to say QRZ without 5 KHz QSY. So how
> does the responding station know that the CQer copied him correctly and
> doesn't need a fill just because the responder concluded with his own call.

When I need a fill in this situation, I simply send a string of dits and 
ask for my fill. If I don't need a fill, I send a dit. As the station 
who will be CQing, I don't like it when the other station doesn't do that.

The un-written rule that W6FB talks about IS written, but not in the 
contest Rules. It's in a piece on the NCCC website that I found many 
years ago. Don't remember who wrote it, but I'm guess-remembering N6TR. 
In a 4-hour Sprint, I rarely encounter more than two or three QSOs that 
don't follow it. When I started Sprinting 10-15 years ago, W7WHY shared 
his N1MM macro file with me.

73, Jim K9YC