On 10/20/2019 2:44 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
As best I know, you don't need to ID every contact, and I suspect you wouldn't even if moving around within a bandwidth as narrow as is typical for FT8.
Far too much attention to identification is paid by those who don't operate much, and/or aren't very good operators. In a typical contest or DX QSO, one operator IDs when he calls CQ (or finishes a QSO), and the caller calls by dropping his callsign (thus, an ID). The CQer IDs with TU callsign or TU and someone else calls his/her. Whether TU or TU callsign is up to the judgement of the CQing op, which is appropriate boils down to making a lot of QSOs in a short time, holding a frequency, and being courteous to potential callers. The FCC minimum is an ID in 10 minutes of a series of transmssions. Courtesy of a running station in a contest DEMANDS every 2-3 QSOs.
Too many IDs is slows down communications, and is a real PITA. In a contest or DX QSO, re-sending your call when the running (DX) station has it right is a LIDISM. When someone calls me in a contest or as a DXpedition, all I want is their call, and I never want to hear it (or mine) unless I've gotten their call WRONG. I know who they are both from timing and their CW note.
73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
