Topband: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest

[James Rodenkirch]

Wellllllllllllllllllllllllll, the problem with not sending SOMETHING after your last call, assuming you are calling CQ, is that one doesn't know whether you are calling someone or calling CQ!

Exaample:  I send, "CQ...CQ ....K9JWV...K9JWV and nothing else - if someone arrives on frequency after the two CQs and my two sent calls he/she doesn't know if I'm calling someone or calling CQ.

If I send "CQ...CQ...K9JWV...K9JWV...K - and someone arrives on frequency, again, after the two CQs, still dicey.

"Signing" after the last sent call with a "test" removes all ambiguity.....

My two cents worth and I'm sticking to it!  72, Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV

> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 15:16:27 -0800
> From: richard at karlquist.com
> To: j_fitton at yahoo.com
> CC: topband at contesting.com; richard at karlquist.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest
> 
> Jim F. wrote:
> > Excellent advice Rick !!!
> >  
> > I get tripped up when a CQing station leaves too long a gap
> > between his last callsign and "Test"  and I start sending too
> > early.
> >  
> > And your QRP tips are very well taken.
> >  
> > 73,   Jim / W1FMR
> >  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I stopped sending "test" after my call for exactly this reason.
> 
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