[UK-CONTEST] Beru - outside callers.

[brian coyne]

I think I would have sent a 599 and put them in the log.

>>You would not have been penalised for having them their.

>>They would have gone away happy, and possibly you would have spent less time.

>>Let's hope they do not tune past you on the band next time in a contest when you need >>their points.

>>I only worked 3  stations in total in the last 15 minuets (P3J was my first)

>>Well done on the 830 QSO's. I noticed I am the last QSO in your log.

>>Tom G0VQR / M0AAA Reading club call
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Can't agree at all Tom, although Alan will no doubt respond for himself, and perhaps others too.
 
If and when you get on the 'sharp end' with even a semi-rare call you will be surprised just how many are listening at any given time, answer an outsider and you open the floodgates, and from 1/2/3 who call you and then it escalates as others come along, hear you working those first callers and join the fray.
 
I didn't have too much trouble, when called by an outsider I sent a polite 'pse beru only' followed by my c/s + beru. only a couple of times did the callers from the same south east eu country persist. Like Bob i did respond to a few JA callers on 80m, which then brought other callers in. My answer in both the above cases was to move.
 
However you obviously never listened to either 9J2BO or 6Y8XF et al other real dx stn's, some of the treatment they get is diabolical and really slows them down.
 
A question (for anybody)   
>> M0AAA Reading club call
 
Several years ago somebody showed up here to operate cqww cw using the c/s 5B/M0AAA
was this legal to use a club call outside the UK?
 
All the best,  Brian C4Z   (5B4AIZ/G4ODV)