[UK-CONTEST] AFS Contest Etiquette

[Dave Sergeant]

On 12 Jan 2009 at 0:00, gm4fam at tiscali.co.uk wrote:

> Would strongly urge you to consider this as an isolated incident.
> 
> I find AFS CW a real pleasure to operate - fast and friendly with many
> exchanges including greetings by name (and the odd HNY).
> 
> I also do not know G3MIR but am sure this was not deliberate on his part
> - he called me and certainly didn't call the next station I worked.

G3MIR is a fairly well known op who I have worked over many years. I 
can only assume this incident was due to a misunderstanding about whose 
frequency it was and was not deliberate.

The only problem I had was when I called one station (say station A) 
and he went back to somebody else (station B). Station B seemed to have 
problems copying serial numbers (even though they were both 599 with 
me) and after several aborted repeats station A abandons the QSO and 
calls CQ again, he comes back to me and we start the exchange. But 
station B carries on asking for repeats right on top of us and messes 
up our QSO. Probably due to an inexperienced operator, not used to CW 
contests and maybe even using a computer reader. We eventually 
completed the exchange but I guess we have to accept that these things 
happen in AFS. For that matter, I worked a lot of people I have never 
ever heard on the bands before, so to that extent it has worked in 
encouraging activity.

(in my last email I said "The odd CW produced a few responses" which of 
course should have read "The odd CQ ...", but mind you at times my 
paddle had a mind of its own....)

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com