[RTTY] Response to DX Station

[Don AA5AU]

Peter wrote:  "If only all DX would call USA stations by number!"
 
I hate when DX stations go by numbers.  It's a cop out for those who do not know how to handle a pileup.  It's penalizes good operators from getting in and getting out of the pileup and it does not take into consideration propagation openings to certain parts of the world/USA/whatever...
 
73, Don AA5AU

From: Peter Laws <plaws at plaws.net>
>To: RTTY contest group <rtty at contesting.com>
>Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 11:31 AM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Response to DX Station
>
>On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 20:30, Ron Kolarik <rkolarik at neb.rr.com> wrote:
>> If you could get everyone to read and abide by the DX Code of Conduct it might help
>> http://dx-code.org/
>
>I agree with all of these, but ....
>
>o I will not trust the DX cluster and will be sure of the DX station's
>call sign before calling.
>
>Very difficult when the DX end goes for along time without IDing at
>all.  Worth it, of course, but very difficult.
>
>
>o  I will not transmit when the DX station requests geographic areas
>other than mine.
>
>If only all DX would call USA stations by number!
>
>
>o  When the DX operator calls me, I will not repeat my call sign
>unless I think he has copied it incorrectly.
>
>By FCC rule, I must identify every 10 minutes and at the end of a
>communication, so I will repeat my call at the end.  Sorry.
>
>
>
>-- 
>Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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