WQ6X Reiterates Reasons Why YOU Should Not Call me.

Running an ad-HOC North Carolina QSO Party (NCQP), near the end, I ran out of NC stations calling CQ (that I could hear at any rate), so I modified the F1-CQ macro to call CQ for NCQP looking to pick up any NC stations that (for whatever reason) are not calling CQ.  This is what I sent:

• CQ  NCQP  WQ6X/6  WQ6X/CA

TRANSLATION: I am calling CQ looking for NC stations in the NCQP.
                             This is WQ6X in the 6th call area and therefore in CA.

Now NOWHERE does the above call indicate (or even suggest) that I am in North Carolina,
that in FACT I am in the state of California.  It would seem to me that the above CQ call makes
it clear that I am calling from California and NoT North Carolina.
And yet, of the 6 stations who called me, only ONE (NC4KW) was actually in North Carolina.

It is from years of participation in other state QSO parties that I began a series of Blogs on the 
topic of Why You Should NoT Call Me.  ([CLICK HERE] to read some of these Blog entries.) 

While I have said all of this before, let's review the above reasons in the context of the North
Carolina QSO Party (NCQP).

• Do you Know What NCQP Is?  (If NO, then you should not call me.)
• Do you Know That WQ6X/6 means I am not in North Carolina? 
  (If NO, then you should not call me.  If YES, then you should not call me)
• Do you Know That WQ6X/CA means I am in California not in North Carolina? 
  (If NO, then you should not call me.  If YES, then you should not call me)
• Do You Know that even if I DO send you an exchange your callsign will then
  be WIPED and NoT added to the Log?
• Do you know that when I am running a contest that I am NoT looking to Ragchew?
  If you want to chit-chat, then you should not call me.
• If I am asking for a particular station and YOU are NoT that station, 
  then you should not call me.
• If we have already worked on this band/mode, then you should not call me.
  
  
  
  

Now as it turns out, there was a contest known as "SST" running on 20-meters in much
the same frequency space as the NCQP and POTA events.  However, that is no excuse
for NoT listening and BLINDLY calling me.

• If you hear me call CQ for a contest event and you don't know what that is,
  then you should not call me.
• Instead, lookup the contest name (in this case NCQP) on the internet and then
  RTFR - Read The Rules.
• Another approach is to LISTEN to stations working the contest, and you will quickly
  learn the proper exchange for the event.   Then again, if I am calling for North Carolina
  and you are not in North Carolina, then you are wasting your time.

In order to become successful at ANY form of radio communication endeavor, before we thrust our callsign into an already cacophonous frequency spectrum, we should FIRST and FOREMOST
LISTEN BEFORE WE TRANSMIT.  Then, after transmitting, we should LISTEN AGAIN!

I look forward to a QSO with you in the various radiosport contests coming up. 
Listen first and then call me in the appropriate contest at the appropriate and we
can share entries in each other log.

C U Down the LoG.