N0AX added:
>Reinforcing a point made by others earlier - if there are specific =
>instructions that the pileup should follow, repeat them with every QSO. =
>Whether it's "up", "EU", "QRP only", "zeros", whatever - it needs to be =
>said with each QRZ. Remember that a fair number of the callers may have =
>just tuned into the action and it only takes two or three to make mush =
>out of things. The small inefficiency incurred by the extra characters =
>or syllables is paid back handsomely in higher rate, fewer repeats, and =
>lower blood pressure.
"Whatever" - for those not on cq-contest, as Ward noted in another post
about the current newbie thread - includes your call.
Anybody know of a list-type-good-contact-last-two-letters-last-heard-blah-blah
reflector we can start cross posting this stuff to? ;^)
73, BW2/VR2BrettGraham
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