[CQ-Contest] repeating callsign - what the heck?

[Stanley Zawrotny]

It’s been my experience that a high percentage of ops get my callsign wrong. This results in NILs in the final scoring. I now send it twice and this has improved the accuracy of my contacts. Which is worse for your log — a slightly longer call or a NIL in your log?

Stan, K4SBZ

"Real radio bounces off the sky."

> On Feb 18, 2025, at 9:41 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> 
> I've done the ARRL DX CW many times. (and do most of the majors;
> CQWW,WPX,WAE,RDX many many times)
>  
> Is some institution in EU (or some popular EU logging software) instructing
> EU's to call you with their callsign twice?
> (or if I am running, they'll again put their callsign in their message when
> they come back to me yet one more time?
>  
> I am hesitant to even complain (make note of is more like it) as they made
> up 86.6% of my log this weekend (TU EU!!) but this weekend more than ever
> before in my decades on the bands did I have (what seemed like) every 8th or
> 9th caller doing this at times(maybe more at times).  I ran anywhere from
> 34wpm to 40wpm (mostly 38wpm) this weekend and especially on the high bands
> I was coming back to the loudest guy just as soon as they had sent their
> callsign ONCE.  Occasionally when my rig was just going into TX, I'd catch
> part of a CW character telling me they had sent their call again.  No
> response (I doubled  with them)
>  
> Thank goodness for the "=" key in N1MMLogger+ (repeats last message sent)  I
> about wore it out.
>  
> Thoughts?
> 
> VE9AA “NB”
> 
> Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
> 
> 
> 
> 
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