I agree, Jim, but wrote QRZ for an example of why an Ack is important in
some form. In regular contests have started omitting and just sending TU
WA2VIU.
Thanks.
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Barry Jacobson
WA2VIU
bdj@alum.mit.edu
@bdj_phd
On Mon, Feb 5, 2024, 3:35 PM Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/2024 5:06 AM, Barry Jacobson wrote:
> > you would say TU QRZ W6FB.
>
> QRZ in this situation is a time waster. If you have had multiple callers
> for the QSO we just finished, TU is the right response. If not, TU W6FB
> is all that is needed.
>
> That let's the previous guy know that
> > you copied him correctly, and let's the next guys know when it's time to
> > jump.
> >
> > In the sprint, you are not allowed to say QRZ without 5 KHz QSY. So how
> > does the responding station know that the CQer copied him correctly and
> > doesn't need a fill just because the responder concluded with his own
> call.
>
> When I need a fill in this situation, I simply send a string of dits and
> ask for my fill. If I don't need a fill, I send a dit. As the station
> who will be CQing, I don't like it when the other station doesn't do that.
>
> The un-written rule that W6FB talks about IS written, but not in the
> contest Rules. It's in a piece on the NCCC website that I found many
> years ago. Don't remember who wrote it, but I'm guess-remembering N6TR.
> In a 4-hour Sprint, I rarely encounter more than two or three QSOs that
> don't follow it. When I started Sprinting 10-15 years ago, W7WHY shared
> his N1MM macro file with me.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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