[DX] Re: Last Two

[AC6V]

Hi John -- good questions -- here is what I have observed.

Listening to pileups, one comes across the DX operator who can not seem to
get an entire call like
Double Ewe Ahh Six Double Ewe Tee Oh and consistently picks out only  a
letter or two of the call.
So folks starting sending the last two and the DX op favors these. Other DX
stations will state last two only.
Many of the DX Nets -- get a list by calling for last two -- and the netters
get into the habit of this goofy procedure.

I have heard numerous tail-enders and quick callers come in with the last two
and son-of-a-gun if the DX doesn't pick up on it. The good operators ignore
all this and insist on full calls and doesn't take tail-enders before he/she
QRZ's again. A sharp caller will pick up on what is the best way to get thru
--- and if the DX is favoring last two and tail-enders with last two -- then
so be it.

I don't approve/disapprove -- it is just a fact of DXing and the DX station
is running the show (or should be!).

Is it legal --- well suppose one starts with their full call and then for the
next nine minutes gives last two and then at the 10 minute point gives
his/her full call --- is that legal???

As for transmitting while the DX is transmitting - in numerous cases the
caller can't even hear the DX station --- go figure.

--
73 From AC6V, Rod In Oceanside, CA
I doubt, therefore I might be!

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John Geiger wrote:

> WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ONLY CALLING WITH YOUR LAST TWO
> LETTERS?  I have never understood this-how your last
> two letters increase the likelihood of you being heard
> relative to your whole callsign.  It seems to me that
> to be heard, at least part of your callsign has to be
> heard over the rest of the hoard-it doesn't matter
> whether that is your prefix, number plus one letter,
> or last two letters.
>
> Am I wrong on this?  Is there something magical about
> the last two letters of a call that allows that audio
> to transcend the ether better than any other part of
> the call.  Is that why I sometimes don't get through
> when I use my entire callsign.  Is there a physicist
> out there who can confirm or deny the acoustical
> properties of the last two letters versus the entire
> call (or at least the prefix).
>
> Along a related line-what is the point of calling the
> DX station when he is replying to another station.  He
> probably cannot hear while he is transmitting, so how
> can he hear your call?  I am usually tuning to find
> the station that he is working-figuring that is where
> he is listening.
>
> SNIP
>
> 73s John NE0P




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