Topband: AAARRRAAGH##$!@@!!

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Let me add my pet peeve.

I'm not a heavy dury contester. Mu goal is not to get on the top of the leaderboard or rack up points but to get meaningful signal reports from to determine if my latest antenna modifications are working. Apparently, there is an unwritten rule to send 59 or 599 instead of realistic reports. Besides being meaningless this is noise because it doesn't convey any information.

Has this always been the case or is this a recent development? I've mentioned thsi to some contesters and theadmonish me not to rock the boat.

I laso agree with Eddy. Callsigns should be exchanged for every QSO.

Mike, N2MS

----- Original Message -----

From: Edward Swynar 

To: Thomas F. Giella NZ4O , a Topband COL 

Sent: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:43:21 +0000 (UTC)

Subject: Re: Topband: AAARRRAAGH##$!@@!!



On 4th November, Tom wrote:



"...Another negative trend that I see more and more of is CW stations not

sending QRL?"



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I've never actually been on a DX-pedition myself, per se (unless operating

on Ocracoke Island in the late 90's counts for anything!), but I made a

personal vow long, long ago, that if ever such a privlege did come my way, I

would send my callsign on at least every third QSO that I made...



So many DX-pedition ops these days seem to assume that their identity is

immediately known 

<snip>

Regularly IDs would take a LOT of frustration out of the equation, IMHO...



~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ