Old fashioned technique of passing messages (remember "traffic nets"?) advised the receiving station to REPEAT the incoming msg so that the sending station has confidence in the receipt. DX ops need to understand that clarity sacrificed to speed is a dubious practice. They should carefully and clearly repeat the caller's call sign; I do that twice and then the frustration and doubt of the caller goes down and there is less hostility on the freq. After all, what the callers want to hear are their call signs coming back. 73Charles Harpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:24:21 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > dx-chat@njdxa.org> Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Dupes -- It Takes Two to Tango> > > > After my first QSO with TX5C, I decided to adopt the Japanese technique of> > > never sending a signal report until after your callsign is sent – and> > > received -- correctly.> > Very good idea, I will absolutely do that in the > future.> > >(It goes without saying that once they do have your> > callsign, > don't send it again.)> > The flip side of that, of course, is that I'm ever > on a DXPedition and> a guy is sending his call 10 times back at me , I'll > assume that> whatever I sent him is wrong ;-) But yeah, I've learned the hard > way> that most *DO* assume that, and sending your call again if they have> it > right is a trigger for them to change what they wrote down.> > Of course, I > guess there's a chance N3MX was actually in there... he> certainly had other > band modes, but given the long drawn out attempt> it doesn't seem likely. I > do end up in a lot of pileups on 160 with> K3OX and he usually beats me ;-)> > > 73,> Dan> > > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems > > http://njdxa.org/dx-chat> > To post a message, DX related items only, > dx-chat@njdxa.org> > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA > > http://njdxa.org>
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