That comes from having cold hands Kurt! Seriously, I think Manfred has a difficult call to read straight away. I remember when I first worked him I could not read the “7Z” part of his call in my head - even now I know his call I sometimes ask for a repeat to make sure it is him calling.
In reply to G4OIG:
Yes It’s not the very easier callsign that I have in my log… But mine is not listen as right in some log…
But It’s right that the cold hands is not the best condition for writing !!!
I know what it is no more latter than… YESTERDAY !!! BRRRRRRRR !!! Well Happy to contact a lot of you during this little trip in Est of France Switzerland border !!! And the call is HB9/ sorry… Even if the weather condition are not so clear than I wishes and oblige me to left before ending the Pile-up…
Please to see you again…
Best wishes
Tof F5UBH
In reply to DK7ZH:
my list of wrong calls is longer and includes AJ5AV
and DF5AV but I have much more QSOs listed.
I observed that your transmitting speed mostly is
higher than the speed of the activator. It should
be the other way round.
As an activator I always work with preset speed …
There is also a lot o mistakes in phone QSOs.
As an activator I learned that it may be hard to
copy your handwritten log at home.
You make some very good points there. I generally send around 18wpm which is fast enough for a steady run of contacts - about one a minute allowing for picking a callsign out of the pile up. SOTA is not a contest! Taking a little more time to get the callsigns correctly helps produce a good log to read from when you get home… and activators please do not throw your original logs away once you have put the information on the database and in your home logbook if you keep one. I have kept my originals right back to May 2006 and can refer to them if any query arises - and a few have: usually people thinking that they have worked me when I have actually worked someone else. That is a subject that has been aired before!
I have kept my originals right back to May 2006 and can refer to them if any query
Original rough logs do help, and not just activators.
Most of the errors I’ve found in my logs have been transcription errors. Sometimes it’s simple mis-reading; P mis-read as D and so on. Other times it’s dumb things like “M0” instead of “G0” (or vice-versa), or entering an “EA” prefix where it should have been “EC” because the summit’s an “EA”. Occasionally it’s something sub-conscious, like typing an old familiar but no-longer-used callsign…
What to say?
Activators fault/choice? I’m in doubt about it.
The only fact I don’t understand is why the chaser does not monitor/remedy it’s own code transmission?
That way we could put the discussion aside and keep up to enjoy SOTA.
Ok?
