On 10/3/2021 7:50 PM, Alex via wsjt-devel wrote:
No 73, no QSO. I really don't care if that means my log will be a few Q's short. The world is already rude enough as it is. We can take a few moments to be courteous.
Not when there's short band opening for DX, and not in a contest. :) When the other station sends RRR or RR73 and I immediately call CQ, he should know that I copied it. If I didn't, I'd send R-10 again. And if you re-send R-10, I know you didn't get my RRR or RR73, so I re-send it. This stuff is LOOONG established practice on the HF bands, especially for contesting and DX pileups. Indeed, the most discourteous thing we can do with working a contest (or in a DX opening) is to make the contact take longer to complete -- it slows the other station down!
Contest rules penalize you if a QSO in your log is not in the other station's log, and it's often the loss of ANOTHER QSO. Failing to understand these issues has driven RTTY contesters crazy when FT8 and FT4 were added to RTTY Roundup, and when those same RTTY contesters worked to set up a pure digital contest.
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