J7-zero-J got spotted 33 times, probably the most mis-spotted station of the
weekend.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Georgek5kg@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 16:23
> To: aburkefl@comcast.net; CQ-Contest@CONTESTING.COM
> Cc: J7OJ@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] J7zeroJ Spots
>
>
>
> In a message dated 2/21/2007 8:07:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> aburkefl@comcast.net writes:
>
> I was running a modest inverted vee at about 50 feet for 40 meters and an
> even more modest G5RV at about 50 feet for 80 meters. Your sigs
> sounded rather loud on those two bands.
>
> Sorry I duped you guys a couple of times. On the one hand, I fell into
> the
> trap of relying on the cluster to ID too many stations. After the contest
> I discovered I had worked J7OJ on four bands and J7 - ZERO - J on three
> other bands! I refuse to blame it on the font - it's blame lies with
> stupidity - and perhaps laziness, greed......
>
> A recent thread on the N1MM forum (the same thread has raged off and on!)
> that it's far more time consuming in a contest like the ARRL to
> tell a station they're a dupe. It's much faster to just work 'em and get
> 'em
> out of the way. Now, if it's SweepStakes, that's an entirely different
> story.
>
>
>
> Hi Art,
>
> Tnx for the nice comments on our 40 and 80m sigs, and the Qsos, with both
> J7OJ and J7zeroJ, hi. Those J7zeroJ spots are a real dilemma for us.
> Both
> this year and last year, we had over 500 dupes - 7% - (out of 7k+ qsos)
> largely
> due to the J7zeroJ spots. (That is a lot of time wasted when we could
> have
> been making legitimate contacts.) I don't know what to do about it
> either,
> other than change our contest callsign.
>
> Not once did we sign J7zeroJ, so they are no doubt posted by ops who can't
> copy code all that well, or at all, for that matter. How much can dah-
> dah-dah
> sound like dah-dah-dah-dah-dah? Heck, we were even spotted by one of the
> "big boys" as J7zeroOJ...go figure.
>
> I am posting this note to the CQ-Contest reflector to spread the word
> about
> the harm of carelessly posting erroneous spots.
> 73, Geo...
>
> George Wagner, K5KG
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