The way one gives his call sign is also important.
The most unpleasant contact I had this weekend was with HS0/IK4MRH
who was calling cq on 20m giving his call as "Hotel Sierra Zero slash
Ay Key Four Am R Atch ". I called him and having got zone number from
him asked him to give me his call phonetically. He burst out in a
lot of insulting words about stupid people asking him to repeat his
call sign which he gives out in CLEAR ENGLISH and immediately started
to call CQ with his voice recorder the very same way he did before.
Well, he spoiled my mood indeed. I had much better opinion about
Italian operators before I met this guy
73, Igor UA9CDC
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Have you ever wondered what you sounded like from the DX side?
Listen to Zoli HA5PP's recording near the peak of my EU opening on 10
meters Saturday (30 OCT 2004).
http://users.vnet.net/btippett/topband_sounds.htm (also log and
rates)
For all the hotshots that seldom give their calls, note how simple
it is to simply sign your call instead of a "QRZ?". Signing only
"QRZ?"
inevitably results in a "What's your call?" which covers stations
calling.
My 1350z minute completed 5 QSO's (rate of 300/hour) and yet I still
had
time to sign my call 4 times in this 65 second recording. Note
"W4ZV"
has 6 syllables (max) versus 3 for QRZ, which results in 15 more
syllables
in this short recording. It's actually less since I normally say
"dub"or "dub-
ya" for W. If you have just ONE person covering up a call or
exchange
with a "What's your call?", I think you've lost whatever advantage
you had
by saving those few extra syllables.
If someone would PLEASE translate this into Spanish, it would be
much appreciated. It's especially a problem with South Americans,
many
of whom share the same call sign, i.e. "QRZ?" I always hate S&P to
the
south for this very reason, and hope someone will try to break the
"QRZ?"
norm most of them seem to follow. The same may be true for Europe
but I'm normally running then and don't know if it's as bad as for
SA.
Great fun on 10 meters this weekend...thanks to all!
73, Bill W4ZV
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