[UK-CONTEST] VHF NFD Contest Exchange

[Andy Cunningham]

I think my test is always "will it be quicker for me and the other guy if I
repeat it twice to start with"?

OK, that's based on a fairly subjective bit of guess-work, particularly if
one side is subject to local QRM, but sometimes it's quicker to repeat on a
noisy path than to ask for the repeat afterwards.

If the report is "41" or lower, then they are going to get everything at
least three times!

Andy
M0HAK (op G4BRA/P)



On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, John Lemay
<john at carltonhouse.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I noticed a disturbing new trend in contest exchanges during the weekend.
> It
> seemed that almost every other station we worked would proceed, when it was
> their turn, to repeat every detail we had sent them, before sending the
> information we needed.
>
> We really don't need confirmation that the other guy got it all. If there
> was any doubt, he/she can ask for a repeat. But to repeat everything we
> sent, parrot fashion, is surely a waste of time.
>
> I wonder if it was a cunning idea by all the other clubs, who got together
> and said "lets make a long-winded qso with G0VHF/P so that they don't win
> again"
>
> If that was the plan, it might just have worked! Time will tell - it could
> be close again.
>
> CU
>
> John G4ZTR (G0VHF/P) Colchester RA
>
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M0HAK