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>From barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) Tue Apr 18 02:43:03 1995
From: barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Subject: Bouvet Split Technique
Message-ID: <giaq4c2w165w@w2up.wells.com>
JFSINGER@delphi.com writes:
> I heard the Bouvet ops doing this on 10 meter CW back in 1990. They were on
> 28.005 or so, with a massive pileup that extended beyond 28.070. I called
> them for an hour and never heard one station they worked. Then I heard them
> send "87" at about 45 wpm. What did that mean? I called them once or twice
> on 28.087 and put them in the log.
> I listened to them fish out the few stations calling them on '87, and
> they again called out a frequency that was far from the core of the pileup.
> I wondered about the ethics of this practice. Unless you figured out what
> they were doing, you had zero chance of working them.
I think it's great what they did. What does ethics have to do with
anything? It it more ethical to join the mass of mindless idiots calling
non-stop? It gives the sharp operator a chance to take advantage of his
experience.
Reminds me of a big pileup a while back when ZL1AMO was somewhere, I
called him down 2 with a wet noodle in the attic and got right through.
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Barry N. Kutner, W2UP Usenet/Internet: barry@w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
Packet Cluster: W2UP >K2TW (FRC)
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