Topband: Contest dupes

[Michael Tope]

Tree,

If I understand what you are suggesting the sequence modification would be:

YOU:   CQ N6TR/XX9 N6TR/XX9 TEST

ME:    W4EF W4EF

YOU:  W4EF 5NN 24

ME (CONVENTIONAL EXCHANGE):  TU 5NN CA

ME (WEAK SIGNAL EXCHANGE):   N6TR/XX9   N6TR/XX9   QSL 5NN CA 5NN CA

YOU: W4EF QSL 73 N6TR/XX9

If we were both at our home stations we could use the conventional 
exchange (unless it was 2 or 3 hours past sunrise). If however, you are 
portable XX9 chances are good you are immersed in a cacophony of QRN and 
straining to copy me. Then it would be good to know that I am actually 
answering you instead of another W6 that you can't hear because he is 
running 5 watts to a top-loaded broomstick.

73, Mike W4EF..............





On 1/26/2026 9:09 AM, Tree wrote:
> And again - I am frustrated that during difficult conditions, stations
> won't send my callsign when I am CQing.  Conditions this weekend were
> horrible.  I had someone in Florida call me - which I thought was
> impossible - and decided not to work them when they did not respond to "who
> are you working?" - as I thought for sure they were answering a European I
> couldn't hear.  I even did the same thing when someone called in from Texas
> - that band was that bad.
>
> 73 Tree N6TR
>
>