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K1FBI

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Re: Repeating your call sign
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2023, 02:49:48 AM »

Another facet of "Repeating your call sign": The runner (CQer) that on SSB just says "QRZ" after each QSO...through 5-10 QSO's or more! Making the OP wanting to work him wait to see who it is. In the time it takes to say"QRZ", he could just as easily give his call sign, and grab the guy that eventually gets frustrated and spins the VFO elsewhere

Yes! That is my biggest pet peeve in contests. I am mainly a hunt-and-pounce phone contester. With just 100W and a triband up 40 feet in the Midwest, I rarely can hold a frequency for running. In the past couple of years I have gravitated to unlimited/assisted and am having a much better time of it. It cuts down on the wasted time waiting for a super-powered big dog to give his call only to find he's a dupe.
Same goes for some of the POTA stations. It would be real nice if they gave their location State and park number every call or few calls, instead of a just a park number every 10 minutes. It makes it hard to log the call.
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