To all serious contesters: I have no complaints. Overall I am pretty happy with my performance but am wondering about the growing list of "incorrect calls" that I have this year. I am always looking
Hi Mike, Yes, this IS annoying. My experience has been that in a large % of cases, I actually have to KNOW that the callsign is incorrect in order to repeat their call with ? and then hope that they
Author: jimk8mr--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:18:35 +0000 (UTC)
Or "incorrect exchanges". Apparently the "5NN" as a cut number for "Please copy" does not always work. I had 172 of my 640 raw QSOs "copy" me in Zone 4. Not in Zone 5 in Florida, where I did the cont
My feeling is that many times the station I am answering is dealing with QRM and doesn't hear or notice I have their call incorrect. Even more often, especially when asking them to repeat the call ag
Happens to me all the time, Jim. Every major contest, about 10% of the exchanges are entered wrong. In my case, I've lived in zone 4 for 15 years now (though I have done an occasional remote from zon
You're probably right Randy & Bob. I put in a little more time in the 2 x CQWW's than usual this fall however that also meant I was likely more tired than usual and I was in a lot of pain from a (the
Hi I am ALWAYS dealing with QRN/QRM in Jaboticabal and this is why my busted calls list is giant. Sorry guys! See you next weekend. [ Vitor ] . .. ... -- PY2NY / SP9NY / V26NY - Vitor Luis Aidar dos
Author: jimk8mr--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:33:57 +0000 (UTC)
Actually it was a bit worse - those 172 miscopies did not include the 15 folks who miscopied my callsign. All but one of whom had me in zone 4. Meanwhile, I hope to work lots of you in the Florida Q
This happened to everyone. If someone hears you send their callsign incorrectly and they do not attempt to correct you that is poor operating however most likely they did not copy your incorrect vers
For me, what my fingers type in the log sometimes doesn't match what my ears hear and/or my mouth speaks. IOW, self-inflicted errors.73,Ed W0YK -- Original message --From: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nb