WRONG ANSWER in my view --
Identification after every QSO is necessary, particularly in a contest --
and it is a requirement of most licensing authorities.
In a contest situation, patience is not a virtue! QSO RATE is the measure
of success. Wasting a few minutes here and there waiting to determine the
callsign of a DX station running a huge pileup is a bad thing. The top
operators ALWAYS send their callsigns either after every QSO or after every
second QSO both during contests and DXpeditions (SXW TXF are good examples
of the right way to do it!). Nobody should EVER depend on a DX Cluster spot
for positive station identification. I've heard some DX operators, mostly
during contests, work stations for upwards of 10 minutes without ever
sending their callsign even once (and to make matters worse, when they
eventually do send their callsign, their signal is in a QSB fade)! That is
extreme, but it does happen. These guys think the whole world revolves
around them and EVERYBODY knows who they are, which is abolutely silly
during a contest when that operator is only one of hundreds of rare stations
running pileups.
One possible solution for this serious problem might be for the contest
sponsors to make a rule that every station MUST identify his callsign after
every QSO or after every two QSO's during a running situation. The top
operators routinely do this, and they maintain outstanding QSO rates while
doing so.
Jan Carman, K5MA
West Falmouth, MA
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Rag is right, but identification after every single contact would
not be necessary if
the callers exercised an old-fashioned commodity called PATIENCE.
Listening for a few minutes to find out who the fuss is over is not
difficult.
And if all the callers were cluster addicts, they would know, anyway ?
161 Tony G4UZN
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Ragnar Otterstad wrote:
I think that much of the poor behaviour can be caused by bad operating
by the DX operator, the worst aspect being infrequent sending of the
callsign.
I listened to a guy on an IOTA in Turkey on 10mHz who went on for over
15 minutes without giving his C/S and very infrequent Up. So the first
layer
on his QRG were saying the equivalent of who is DX , the second
saying up ( etc !!) and the rest couldn't hear anything anyway. With
increasing
ease of travel and light equipment it is too simple for ill-trained or
inexperienced
operators to go to a sought after site and cause havoc, which includes an
excessively large spread.
Call me politically incorrect if you like, but don't call me early, Ivan
G3IZD
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I think this is a very valid point. Some of the otherwise excellent
operators going places are bad with their ID-ing. I have even experienced
this from
FOC-members. Unfortunately not all work like our friends Roger/Nigel , who
have
exemplary conduct on the bands !
We should all tell people who dont ID-properly to improve their style !
161 Rag LA5HE
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