[UK-CONTEST] Failure to Identify

[Roger Western]

Take the rough with the smooth: nearly all operators are much snappier these 
days - QSO rates of 200 an hour were unthinkable in days gone by. When 
operating as EP2IA late 70's I broke the 'rules' by only sending my name & 
QTH once - !

However, not identifying for ten minutes is absolutely unforgivable: it 
disappoints the 'audience' and generates chaos. Reasons? - 'everyone knows 
who I am' is simply arrogant; plain forgetting to do it shows inexperience. 
My rule these days is to send my call at least once per minute: helps 
especially when the call-sign is long.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ken Eastty
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 12:10 PM
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Failure to Identify

>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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
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