>
> 3. What on earth can we do to make "PREC?" easier for more people to
> understand? If I shot myself for every time somebody either sent the WRONG
> thing or his WHOLE exchange when I asked "PREC?" this weekend I'd be out of
> bullets by now. Here's an idea: if we think of it as part of the number, we
> could model the desired behavior (psychology again) and just ALWAYS tack it
> onto the number when asked for a fill on the number, i.e. when asked "NR?"
> we would reply "859B" instead of "859". If all respectable operators did
> this then everyone could get over the potential pitfall of "some do and some
> don't", and 10 years from now when you say "NR" to some ridiculously weak
> guy who thinks QRP is cool he'll say "45Q" so you don't have to ask him for
> his "PREC?" separately and risk his not understanding what you meant, even
> though you're S9+40 on his HW-7. Other ideas welcome, but maybe we should
> pick one and stick with it and get it publicized and model it to the people
> who don't know better.
I just ask P? and only get a 50% responce. If you sent me PREC? I probably
would have replied with ? becuase to me the exchange is "NR P CL CK SEC" so if
I need a fill, that's what I ask for.
73 de Al, KE1FO
>
> So, we have the power to fix all these things. In the mean time, I have my
> own ways of sneaking the "PREC?" out of anybody who doesn't know what a PREC
> is, but that's a SS Secret.
>
> Great to be back in SS. Two radios has made it a completely different, and
> better, contest.
>
> Mark, N5OT
>
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