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Re: [CQ-Contest] No Dit-Dit (was Sending Speed)

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] No Dit-Dit (was Sending Speed)
From: Doug Smith W9WI <w9wi@earthlink.net>
Date: 18 Sep 2006 09:12:50 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 00:04, Dale Martin wrote:
> Oh, Hal.  Here's where you and I disagree.  I need that acknowledgement of
> his having received my exchange.  The ack is as much a part of the QSO as
> the exchange.  The absence of an ack does not a QSO make. 

The Sprint rules have incorporated both callsigns into the exchange -
you have to send the other guy's call even though you supposedly already
know it - and compliance is nearly 100%.

Maybe the Sprint rules should be modified to make acknowledgement a
mandatory part of the exchange?
-- 
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

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