For a very high-visibility guy like that, that's all you need. I like
the courtesy of a TU, particularly when I'm S&P and that is the only
thing he'll hear from me after our QSO. I also think the importance of
confirmation varies with the type of exchange - in SS it makes a lot of
sense to do something. *The most important thing* is not to repeat the
received exchange, in whole or in part
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 9/3/2013 2:09 PM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:
On 9/3/2013 12:06 PM, Patrick Barkey wrote:
If I do not get a solid acknowledgement from another station in a
contest, I DELETE the ENTRY in my logging program.
This begs the question -- at what point in a QSO do we cease requiring
confirmations? In other words, if you need to copy a confirmation to
log a
QSO, then how does the station sending the confirmation know that you've
heard it?
The station sending a confirmation may have no idea that you didn't copy
it. So should you confirm that you got the confirmation? Maybe several
rounds of this ack-ing just to be sure?
At some point each contest QSO is built on a trust that each station's
needs are satisfied. When that trust is there you hit return and log
the
QSO.
Its interesting that some demand an explicit QSL or thanks. I
remember hearing about how one of the top running stations rarely said
thank you or QSL. Instead he simply said "ZD8Z" - which was said to
accomplish 1) the acknowledgement need and, 2) the need to identify
one's call often.
73 Rich NN3W
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