I very much prefer the K9MA/WI pattern. Immediately lets me know that this
person is not in MN and I won’t call him. Usually when I try to raise somebody
in MN, for example, by calling 'CQ MNQP de AA8TA/OH' I’ll get more people from
other states respond than in-state participants. No biggie, I log them then
transfer them to main log and take them out of the Cabrillo file.
TU es 73 de Joe AA8TA
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 15:38:12 -0600
> From: K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us>
> To: CQ Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>, Minnesota Wireless
> Association <mwa@w0aa.org>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] QSO Party Calls
> Message-ID: <3a3e1f35-73db-24c3-1e23-45df7537f93a@sdellington.us>
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> In the MNQP yesterday, I found I had to sign "K9MA/WI" when calling CQ,
> so callers knew I was not in MN. A lot of MN stations the duped me, as
> I had omitted the /WI when I called them. So, now there are two
> versions of my call in some logs, but I didn't really want to waste time
> adding the /WI when calling MN stations. What to do? I tried adding
> 1.5 spaces before the /WI, in the hope that other operators would not
> log that part. I think it would be best if everyone could agree on some
> designator for stations outside the target state, or at least not to log
> them. Any other suggestions?
>
> 73,
>
> Scott K9MA
>
> --
> Scott K9MA
>
> k9ma@sdellington.us
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