[RTTY] Two NA Sprint Questions

[WW3S]

with regard to the dupe, either they worked someone else, and not you 
before, OR they thought this contest still had the old rule, where you could 
work dupes as long as there were 3 qsos in between. That was the rule when 
the rtty sprint first started because activity was low...as you mentioned in 
the first part of your post, activity was anything but low....in the ideal 
world, if I answered your CQ, and it was going to be my freq, my exchange 
would be K2DSL 001 JAMIE PA DE WW3S, so everyone would know its now my freq, 
there were a few people doing it that way last night, but not many, I think 
that led to the confusion,....that and bad conditions, at least this far 
north, were poor, so a lot of fills were needed, thats why the TU or QSL QSY 
messages helped (at least for me)....if you were CQing, and had to QSY, then 
your exchange should be (at least per the sprint "standard") WW3S K2DSL 001 
DAVID NY ...


On 3/15/2009 8:44:37 AM, David Levine (david at levinecentral.com) wrote:
> Last night was my first NA Sprint and it was definitely different.  At
> the
> start I watched a couple of exchanges to see how it flowed
> (wasn't able to
> be in the practice session) and then jumped in. From a few interactions I
> had it might have helped some others to watch a couple exchanges.  And it
> seemed that some ops (a small number) didn't
> know they were supposed to
> relinquish the frequency or that they were supposed to take the frequency.
>
>
>
>
> Not sure why with what seemed to me a relatively small number of stations
> that everyone had to be on top of each and even overlapping signals at
> times.  Even with a tight filter I
> couldn't knock out the other station so
> I'm sure those without tight
> filters just moved to another frequency.
>
> So
> here's my first question.. An odd part of the whole exchange is the final
> confirmation.  The CQ station sends their report. The new station sends
> their report. What happens next was either the CQ station confirmed and 
> said
> QSY or another station would immediately call the new station and I 
> wouldn't
> see a confirmation from the previous CQ station.  I think there were 2
> times
> this happened that the origi