Hi Nelson,
I made a similar mistake. I had been calling split and decided to do some
longer listening, rather than just using the momentary REV button like I
usually do to find where he was working, I swapped VFOs. When I finished
listening I forgot to swap VFOs back. I called a few times before I
noticed. I never heard the cops because I was listening in the wrong place.
Hey, this is a tough admission. I'm embarrassed and wish I could take it
back. But it happened because I got lazy and instead of using the REV
button like I always do, I swapped VFOs. So shoot me!
On another note, I remember hearing a rather well known callsign repeatedly
calling on the wrong VFO on another rare DXPedition. I thought about
venting a little by sending him an email. When I looked him up on QRZ.com I
saw that he was 92 years old. I decided to cut him some slack.
73 Art W2NRA
"Keep to the Code!"
w2nra.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a@mchsi.com>
> OK, I confess, I transmitted on TX5C once by accident after taking a break
> from the 30 meter RTTY pileup to check other bands for propagation and
> forgetting I had disabled split mode in the process. It only took one
> transmission to bring out the cops, and the frequency was trashed by at
> least 2-3 of them for several seconds.
>
> Perhaps it's the increasing average age of hams in general that
> exacerbates
> the problem, I notice that I've gotten more error-prone in the past 3
> years,
> like forgetting to change the band switch on the amp or transmitting into
> the wrong antenna. Maybe we should all count to 10 before jumping on some
> senile offender to see if it's an accident by an otherwise knowledgeable
> op,
> the result of ignorance and inexperience on the part of some newby, or
> intentional QRM from some miscreant that can't work the DX and resents the
> fact that others can.
>
> However, my all time pet peeve is the idiot that tunes up on the DX
> transmit
> frequency when the DX is listening 15-20 kHZ up the band. Now why can't
> the
> unwashed masses comprehend that if you're going to call the DX up 15-20
> kHz,
> you probably should tune up where you are going to TRANSMIT, not where you
> are going to LISTEN!
>
> I relinquish my soap box to the next party in line.
>
> Nelson, KU0A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of MIKEHAACK@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:07 PM
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Comments on TX5C RTTY Operations
>
>
> I'm not sure which one I find more amusing.
>
> The folks calling the DX on their transmit frequency
>
> Or
>
> The other folks who take time away from their "busting the pileup" to
> correct them.
>
> Lets see, someone who might, just might be transmitting in error vs
> someone
>
> knowingly stepping on the DX frequency.
> And which one of us hasn't ..at least once..swapped to the wrong vfo in
> the
>
> heat of a long awaited pileup.?
>
> What do you think all....?
>
> Mike WB9B
/rtty
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