[RTTY] Some more on "post contest thoughts" !!

[Larry L Lindblom]

When someone sends a B4 message and they are not in my log I send a
message saying "not in my log   not in my log. de W0ETC"   Then if the
don't work me I move on, but more often than not they work me 

73 Larry, W0ETC

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:35:59 +0100 "Phil Cooper" <pcooper at guernsey.net>
writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I had occasion to use the B4 message this time. In the main I think 
> it was
> from multi op stations who didn't know, or couldn't remember working 
> me.
> Yes, I know it is in the log, and should show up as a dupe, but I 
> think some
> just called before checking the logged stuff.
> I actually made this mistake ONCE (and once only!) of seeing a call 
> that I
> needed, and then realising it wasn't his frequency, despite the way 
> the QSO
> took place.
> Two that spring to mind are HA80IARU, and 4O310SKY. HF80IARU was 
> insistent
> that I had worked him on 40m, and at that point, it was the first 
> time I had
> heard him.
> 
> I also had B4 sent to me MANY times, but I suspect some of this was 
> down to
> the fact that another GU was on for some of the time, and I think 
> they
> logged it from the super-partial database instead of logging what 
> was
> printed.
> For those of you that hadn't realised, it was Andy GU4WTN having 
> some fun
> with his new Ten-Tec. He has told me he got several TU PHIL so 
> guessed that
> he may have been logged as SUP.
> 
> I worked one station who called me again, and then marked the 
> previous QSO
> as unclaimed, as I suspect he didn't receive my QSL TU report.
> 
> Indeed there were some lousy signals about, but not as many as all 
> that. I
> found one UT station who appeared to be inverted, but it was just a 
> spur!
> 
> One other thing that got me heated was running a nice pile, and then 
> one of
> the stations I had just worked would go and CQ within a few Herz of 
> me,
> blotting out my signal. Not nice!
> Also had one that called me, then started to CQ on my frequency. As 
> it was a
> big contest station, I didn't stand much chance.
> 
> Ah well, all in all, not as bad as it could have been, and nothing 
> in
> comparison to those that live in LA/TX.
> At least we all had the chance to play.
> 
> 73 all,
> 
> Phil GU0SUP
> 
> 
> 
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