[UK-CONTEST] Sending Station Call -- G3SJJ

[Chris Tran ZL1CT]

Hello all

Chris G3VIP's posting sent me online to read BR68 - sorry Chris there is
nothing in the UK licence regulations which says you have to give the other
station's callsign when calling - the only requirements are that you
identify your own station as described in BR68. I must agree with Chris
G3SJJ that this is an annoyance and completely un-necessary, assuming you
have listened long enough to correctly identify who you are calling.

As discussed on this reflector before, the usual reason for a station
sending both callsigns is to identify who they are working if e.g. there are
2 co-channel pile-ups (which occurs surprisingly often on HF) - I find U.S.
stations are quite good at this - however I take it as a sign that the
frequency I'm using is in trouble.

On another subject - WPX CW conditions were very noisy here this year, so my
UBN will not be so good I'm afraid - I found some of the Swedish special
contest calls particularly difficult to copy - these 7S, 8S calls are poor
and the ops. must get fed up with repeats - their UBNs must be worse than
average ?  I used 2S7V briefly in 1999 and it was the worst callsign ever !!

73
Chris
ZL1CT
ZL1V in IARU 2005