On 04/12/2017 12:57 p.m., Libor Holous OK2ZO wrote:
Experienced users will quickly know, you are from Costa Rica.. Just send time to time CQ and standard 73 message with full call..
Libor, I understand what you are saying, but the reality is that a lot of fellows in the States, when they sit down for a session, will simply glance at the band activity window and not connect up my abbreviated call and my full callsign, because it may not appear on their list of decodes. If my full callsign, from a CQ or 73 message doesn't appear in the band activity window, they will not appreciate that I am a DX station.
I do, in fact, call CQ frequently - mostly so my full callsign gets out there, and also because it makes starting an autosequence more sure. But when I'm working a pileup, as I am most of the time, I can go for quite a few QSOs - ten or fifteen minutes - with the software never sending a CQ, but simply replying to the first decode that pops up after my last 73 message, and Call 1st then sends to the standard messages. When that happens, I do not send a complete callsign at all until the next 73 message, (and technically, that's not legal under the rules here - we are supposed to transmit the full, unabbreviated call signs of ours and the other station's call, during the first and last transmissions in a QSO and "frequently" in between). And it also means my full callsign is transmitted far less frequently, as it appears only in the 73 messages I send. If the other station who might be considering calling me has a lot of band activity that is generating a ton of decodes, he may not ever notice that my full call is a DX callsign. And very few, if any, ever will ever figure it out from my grid square alone.
Anybody will always put you to the cluster, so you won't have to be worry, you not have a pileup..
That is not always true when I am working a lot of Stateside stations, many of which probably never realize, till my 73 message, that they've even worked a DX station. Many, if not most stations in the States will never spot me to the cluster (because, even though I'm DX, I'm in a commonly worked country), and, because of my proximity to the States, they represent the bulk of stations I work.
I can always tell when I've been spotted to the cluster because the pileup instantly gets much bigger. And that happens only infrequently when most of the stations I am working are Stateside. When I am working a lot of Europeans, yes, at least a third of the stations I work there will spot me. But that is a much less common practice in the States.
Question is, if EU is more DX than US for you? For lot of stations from Caribean it's opposite..
For purposes of awards, they're all the same - anything outside of Costa Rica is DX to me - including 200km up the road in Nicaragua or 150 km down the road in Panamá. If your question is whether I am more desirous of working E.U. than U.S., no, it doesn't matter to me as I'm not really much of a DX chaser, unless it's a country I haven't worked, and then I want it - no matter where it is. And in E.U. all I am lacking are Andorra and Lichtenstein, but still lack several in Latin America, mostly in the Caribbean.
73, Scott Bidstrup TI3/W7RI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
