[RTTY] Contest Behavior

[iain macdonnell - N6ML]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Bill Turner <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 08:24:49 -0500, you 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,
>
> REPLY:
> I'm afraid it's you who needs to read a little closer.
>
> I said I never send my report until I have theirs. If I don't get their
> report first time, I send AGN AGN (requesting a repeat) until I get it. I
> never send my report until I have theirs. Never.

But if you're CQing, you generally send your report first. The problem
scenario is this:

> CQ TEST N6ML N6ML CQ
< N6ML 599XTOGPAQU DE W1ABC
> W1ABC 599 325 325 W1ABC
< TU 73 W1ABC
> NR? NR?
[nothing - he's gone]


So what do we think is the appropriate protocol here. Should we refuse
to send a report to him until he calls us properly, with only his
callsign, and not his report?

73,

    ~iain / N6ML