[UK-CONTEST] Failure to Identify

[Ken Eastty]

>> Perhaps I can be really old fashioned here, and suggest that a qso
>> requires a minimum exchange of both callsigns and a report ?
>>
>> John G4ZTR
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>> All it needs is the operator to NOT take any calls dropped in during the
>> final over, and then when finished give call or QRZ.
>>
>> Am I a dinosaur and asking too much in these "modern times".
>>
>> Bob G8HGN
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You are both beginning to sound like G3's!

I remember several cycles ago BC (Before Cluster) some good 10m openings 
when I regularly worked a station on one of the Pacific Islands (H44?) 
without anyone trying to break in & not every report (even in contests) 
was 59(9) and you could call CQ DX on 10m without being called by UA3's, 
SV's etc. I'm very much afraid that it's a a sign of "modern times".  I 
guess that in the past a good percentage of 'amateur' operators had been 
(or were) professional operators either as sea going R/O's or in the 
military & operated with some discipline, I get the impression now that 
the bands are populated by a lot of football hooligans.

73...

Ken

G 3 LVP