To Run Rate

• Recognize the opportunity to run rate!

• Send calls and exchanges only once.

• Send your own call only once.

• Respond after callers give one call. Develop a ``pace'' that will establish your rhythm.

• Be in control.

• Limit extraneous stuff. Send a quick ``TU''or other short QSL message.

• When more than one station calls you, consider sending ``TU'' only and not your call after every QSO. The stations know you are there and want you to finish the QSO so they can call you again. Send ``TU'' and your call after every three QSOs in a pile-up situation.

• Respond to every call with something to maintain rhythm. For example, ``DL5 599 4'' rather than ``DL5?''

• Practice ability (it's hard) to maintain a mental or software ``stack'' of waiting callers. That will ensure you can work a next station even when many are calling.

• Listen +/- 300 Hz on CW with the RIT after CQs when no one appears to call you inside your receiver pass band. Often there are people calling you outside your pass band.