IMHO...  I consider it rude and inconsiderate to purposely avoid using the proper

 protocol that was specifically designed to provide the Grid to the station you are

 calling just to save a few seconds of turnaround between timeslots. The software

 was designed such that CQ'ing Stations call using TX6 and answering Stations

 respond with TX1, including their Grid. If you answer someone's CQ by using

 improper protocol, you are purposely refusing to provide them with info that they

 may be seeking by being on the radio in the first place. You are refusing to tell

 them your Grid, which they may be collecting for various Awards, and you are

 refusing to give them an indication of your location, which would tell them where

 their signal is reaching. You might as well give them a crude gesture at the same

 time. In many instances, that forces the CQ Station to look up your info on-line

 before they'll log it in WSJT and/or their Station Log. That effort takes more time

 than the 15 seconds saved by NOT  providing your Grid when rudely calling by

 using TX2! After reading all the comments here about using TX2 to call Stations

 and all the lame/weak excuses for doing so, I'm seriously considering NOT logging

 QSOs that call using TX2. I'll work them, but I think I won't Log them. That would

 be just as rude and inconsiderate.

GL/73,   Bob  K8BL               (Let the flaming begin. 3...2...1)

On Saturday, May 22, 2021, 04:54:00 PM EDT, Reino Talarmo <reino.talarmo@...> wrote: