-------- Lars, SM3BDZ wrote: ----------
>>With slow speed it can be a hard time to be able to copy all the
>>letters in the call before diving into a QSB valley...
>>Any other thoughts?
Yes, definitely! - sorry Lars, hi!
My experience from being on Top Band for some years as XV7SW is that it can be
extremely hard to handle QRQ calls due to the high level of QRN most of the
time in tropic or semitropic areas. QRN bangs are usually both loud and long
enough to mask even quite long callsigns, and QRQ simply amplifies the problem.
Thus, often when I sent a QRZ?, adding a "pse QRS", and found myself at the
receiving end of another QRQ salvo, there was no chance on earth to get
anything through. Another "QRZ? pse QRS", another swift rattle...and so on, and
so on; I found this on-the-air Ping-Pong quite meaningless.
If, on the other hand, the caller listened to my pleas for QRS, I sometimes had
a fair chance to paste together bits and pieces to some plausible callsign
between the crashes and bangs. As I was normally handling pile-ups on higher
bands at a reasonable QRQ pace, it seemed that callers on Top Band could simply
not believe in my pleas, "QRS pse".
IMHO, ON4UN is commenting very wisely on this very problem in his "Low-Band
DXing" (cf. p. 2-14, 4th Ed.) by concluding very Solomonically, "The DX station
should determine the CW speed". He´s bang-on.
73,
Rolf
SM5MX, XV7SW etc.
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