[UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers

[Doug Roberts]

Ian,

Of course, the trick when S&P'ing is to make sure you have their report
before you give theirs!  I learned that very early on, and it's amazing how
long you can hold their attention :-)  (and how quickly they're gone once
your report is transmitted!).

73,
Doug G0WMW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK at ifwtech.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CW Letters instead of Numbers


| Don Wrote:
|
| >And here I disagree with Ian G3SEK. Yes, most adjudicators penalise the
| >receiving station if the exchange is copied incorrectly (in some
| >contests, though not CQ, both stations are penalised, by the way).
|
| Thanks for that correction, Don - but it does also confirm that in a CQ
| contest, it's easy to get away with poor sending that puts the whole
| burden of copying on the other guy.
|
| > But if the receiving station is not happy with the QSO he has an
| >alternative recourse, which is not to log the QSO at all. Then the
| >sending station gets penalised for "not in log".
| >
| That doesn't seem very likely. If an inexperienced S&Per has been
| bounced into letting the guy go without asking for a repeat, he's
| probably not going to take the "suicide option" of deleting the whole
| QSO. I think most will stay on the frequency and listen to a few more
| exchanges until they've worked it out; so once again they lose time,
| while the speed merchant speeds on.
|
| >As Chris G3SJJ says, the trick for any operator is to be flexible
| >according to the calling station. Be ready to slow down, send repeats
| >or whatever as appropriate. But again, this has little to do with cut
| >numbers as such, and everything to do with good operating in general.
|
| Absolutely!
|
| But how can you get this point across to the operators we're dealing
| with here? The feedback from their UBN reports isn't going to make them
| change their ways - it will be too little and too late. When they see
| how many points they've lost in 2004, they'll most likely crank it up
| even faster in UTTE.
|
| The *really* annoying thing is, I know I'll be back to work them again
| :-)
|
|
| -- 
| 73 from Ian G3SEK         'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
| http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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