Russ,
Glad you chimed in. I was thinking the same thing. Contest rules almost always
require a complete exchange during your QSO (I say almost only because there
may be some contests that have exceptions).
NIL penalties for Digi modes has been quite high compared to phone or CW.
Choose your poison, shorten the QSO and experience more NIL penalties or get
the 73 confirmation with fewer penalties and better QSL confirmations after the
test.
Jim KC7QY
On Monday, May 10, 2021, 08:39:30 AM MDT, Russ <k2...@comcast.net> wrote:
Paul Kube wrote:
- Answering a CQ:
CQ WW W0YK DM97 Tx6
W0YK K6PO R DM12 Tx3
K6PO W0YK RR73 Tx4
- Tailending a QSO. K6PO has already copied W0YK’s grid. Then:
W1AW W0YK RR73 Tx4
W0YK K6PO R DM12 Tx3
K6PO W0YK RR73 Tx4
- Tailending a QSO. K6PO has not yet copied W0YK’s grid. Then:
W1AW W0YK RR73 Tx4
W0YK K6PO DM12 Tx2
K6PO W0YK R DM97 Tx3
W0YK K6PO RR73
These are NOT contacts! Contact rules specifically state that you must copy
your call sign from your QSO partner before sending a report. Regardless of
the fact that some misguided contest rules may allow ‘contacts’ in that form,
those contacts would not be good for other awards (DXCC, VUCC, etc).
Eliminating 73 – a bad idea. If I send 73 and the other guy receives it, then
he knows it was a good contact. If I continue to send my report then he should
know to continue sending RRR. Otherwise he may log a contact that was
incomplete.
73, Russ K2TXB
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