[UK-CONTEST] 'mycall' sending in contests

G3SVL G3SVL at manyoaks.co.uk
Fri Mar 18 04:44:04 EST 2005


>G3SJJ wrote:
>  > . .   several stations insisted on sending my call sign before giving 
> their report,

>GW4ALG wrote:
> > ..... Is it an option in a particular brand of contest logging software?

I noticed this as well and perhaps there's a simple explanation. 80mCC is 
bringing lots of new calls into contesting, and I sense some are not 
frequent CW ops. So how does a newbie CW contester start a QSO? Probably 
the way he was taught/read in a book - and that says you send the other 
station's call then yours at each over.  If they keep going on contesting 
(and DX chasing for that matter) they'll get the hang of it and the 
'problem' will go away as they gain confidence. Frustrating as it might be, 
everyone they call suffers the same longer QSO.

Don ('XTT) is this addressed in your new operating guide?

73  Chris G3SVL 



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