[UK-CONTEST] Failure to Identify

[Stewart GM4AFF]

I listened for a little while on 10m yesterday. This was outside any contest
and conditions were superb. There were many stations who were ending their
QSOs with TU, rather than identifying. Some stations on SSB just go on and
on and never identify, in spite of not being under any particular pile-up
stress.

So it's not just the desire to increase rate in contests that causes this.
In fact, that's just an excuse. I fully appreciate that to not identify from
time to time is a means of pile-up control, but that's not what these guys
are doing. Sadly, they just don't know how to operate. Now that we have good
conditions, I wonder how it will be in the ARRL 10m contest coming up next
weekend?

During CQ WW SSB I noticed a station on the cluster who was entering loads
of bad, or busted spots. Everyone, including me, was annoyed by this. I now
think that he may have been trying to make a point.

 

73

Stewart

GM4AFF