It’s quite simple…if you have not exchanged callsigns and reports, WHETHER YOU HAVE TO LOG THE REPORT OR NOT then it’s not a valid contact.
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Yes, as the activator (the DX) you simply send “UP” and magically everyone will vacate your TX frequency for 1kHz up.
Well that’s the theory at least. Plenty of people don’t listen and continue on the DX frequency causing QRM. It’s a good idea once you have gone split to keep saying UP on every QSO.
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It’s not necessarily that they don’t listen, they don’t know what split operating is. The band police should understand that shouting/sending UP over the activator won’t make them magically understand that they should move, a quick and tactful email might be more effective than increasing the QRM on frequency.
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Yep. I know experienced operators like to send/receive at high speeds. Good for them! But this past Field Day that is exactly what made me decide to give up entirely on FD in the future. And contests in general. I do this for fun, not to be stressed out.
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You are right. When they don’t understand UP, the band police have to send LID instead 
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I don’t know about that… is it more or less effective at causing confusion than UP?
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Meanwhile in the real world… 
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Well if Ofcom get their way with their proposals we’ll be able to send GE6PJZ/UP
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Yeah. TBH, if I’m the activator and I can’t read a chaser’s callsign because they’re sending it too fast then they’re simply not going to end up in my log, but the QRM they’d be generating would be a mite annoying…
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More likely they cannot remember how to set it up, and hope for the best!
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“PEM”…?
Phone Emergency Module
Proton-Exchanged Membrane
<—Recent CW Padawan, still not proficient. Q…R…S with big spacing seems to do the trick. I’ve had a few chasers get very sarcastic and go from 25 wpm to 5 wpm which doesn’t help anyone. I’ve also seen multiple words sent with almost no spacing, equally unintelligible. As stated above, if the chasers can’t slow down, that callsign doesn’t make the log.
Ultimately, it’s a hobby and nothing to be offended over.
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Ein was?
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Private email. Like SOTA itself (State of the Art), you select the meaning by context. Is that usage of PEM only used this side of the pond? 
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Post-exertional malaise.
A feeling that possibly afflicts most SOTA people
P.S Brians answer was the correct on in this context
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Aren’t all emails “private” by definition? And I can’t recall when I last used POP3/SMTP that wasn’t encrypted between me and the server. Not sure of the inter server hops but something like 95% of those were encrypted hops back in 2018.
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Private as against a public rebuke, such as in the reflector, but you knew that…
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That’s typical of novice CW operators not sticking to the golden rule. I’m currently helping someone improve their Morse and that happened a lot in the early days.
I make more mistakes paddling or straight-keying with a character speed slower than my ‘natural’ speed.
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Yes we all have a speed comfort zone, particularly Iambic. That may, in part be the issue here.
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It depends if it’s a confidential email addressed to xxxxx.ml instead of xxxxx.mil
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As a new CW operator, I appreciate the sentiment of asking some chasers to slow down. At the same time operators that contact me at speeds faster than mine help me get better. If a chaser wants to work me at 35 wpm, we can expect one of three outcomes: 1) They’ll get lucky and I’ll recognize their call sign at first pass, 2) the chaser will have to repeat 1 or more times, or 3) they’ll move on. Any of these outcomes is fine with me!
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