[RTTY] Contest Behavior

[BILL ENGLISH]

Speaking of contest protocols, I wish more people would end their CQ's with
either CQ or TEST and please not use K. This is a good example of shorter
not being better.  I often tune by a station calling CQ and all I hear is
the tail end and get "W4ABC K" I have to sit and wait for the guy to call
CQ again, or as is more often the case, tune on to the next one. A simple
W4ABC CQ would help a lot in these cases.

Also with QRM sometimes it is hard to hear your call at the beginning of
the report when someone comes back to your call. To make things easier I
wish more people would send their reports as W4ABC 599 001 001 W4ABC  A
whole lot of guys use this protocol, and man what a difference it makes in
accuracy and less repeats, I wish more would adopt it.

Good luck and see you all in a little while.

Bill K4FX

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, BILL ENGLISH <bill at k4fx.net> wrote:

> Surely you don't log a QSO that you don't have a report for do you Bill?
> Read a little closer. I said I didn't get their report, and because of
> that, caused by arrogant behavior they are not logged. I log a lot of jerks
> in the average contest with 1000 plus QSO's, that just the law of averages,
> but I am not going to guess at a report and log it, just to make work for
> the log checkers,
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:22 AM, BILL ENGLISH <bill at k4fx.net> wrote:
>
>> Surely you don't log a QSO that you don't have a report for do you Bill?
>> Read a little closer. I said I didn't get their report, and because of
>> that, caused by arrogant behavior they are not logged. I log a lot of jerks
>> in the average contest, but I am not going to guess at a report and log it,
>> just to make work for the log checkers,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Bill Turner <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 01:50:51 -0500, K4FX wrote:
>>>
>>> >That is one of my pet peeves, when people assume they have a band
>>> >commanding signal. Then you don't get their report, you sent them a
>>> report
>>> >and they send 73 GL and QSY. I have not logged many QSOs because of this
>>> >arrogant behavior.
>>>
>>> REPLY:
>>> I agree these guys should not do it this way, but if handled right it's
>>> not
>>> a problem. For example, I never send my report until I have theirs. If I
>>> don't get theirs the first time I just send AGN AGN until I get it. Only
>>> then do I send my report. Works for me.
>>>
>>> I don't recall ever not logging a Q because of their behavior.
>>>
>>> Bill, W6WRT
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