I should add that in fairness to K0MN, I don't know if that was actually
him calling PT0S or someone bootlegging his call. I've seen at least one
case (and I am sure there have been plenty of others) where the culprit
is bootlegging the callsign of someone else. In the case I am thinking
of, the culprit was jamming the DX qrg, not calling repeatedly out of
turn (the latter being a more subtle way for a bootlegger to tarnish
someone's reputation).
73, Mike W4EF...................
On 11/12/2012 8:13 AM, Michael Tope wrote:
I'll name names. Last night on 80 meters, K0MN kept calling over and
over through the entire period (~15 minutes) when PT0S was listening
for JAs at his sunrise. To make matters worse, somebody decided it
would be helpful to read him the riot act on PT0S's frequency as in
"K0MN idiot" over and over (NOT! helpful). What's worse is that after
he quit listening JA only, PT0S worked K0MN (so much for Karma!).
Sending "A$$" and "FU" over and over when someone's tuning on the DX
QRG isn't helpful either.
73, Mike W4EF..........
On 11/12/2012 7:26 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
On 2012-11-12, at 10:14 AM, Les Kalmus wrote:
I heard the same thing you did Gary but I wasn't able to break the
pileup on either band.
I hope I can eventually get through what is among the worst
intentional QRM on a DX station that I have heard.
There really should be a way of "...outing" some of these deliberate
QRM generators...
I realize that some of the stuff is being generated anonymously, but
we all know the call signs of one, or more, "REPEAT offenders"---guys
who continually insist upon calling out of turn, guys who repeatedly
send their call signs right over top of existing QSOs, guys who
repeatedly call on the DX stations transmit frequency, etc. etc. etc.
...in short, guys who just continually refuse to "get it."
Years ago I wrote to ARRL & suggested they publish a monthly list of
DX station non-QSLers in QST---much like they had a column called
"Pre-Historic Signals" in 1929 when they were actively pushing to get
Amateurs to "raise the bar" in the quality of their signals---but I
never received so much as even an acknowledgement of my idea. I guess
it wasn't in keeping with being polite & gentlemanly.
Let's face it: the situation is HARDLY improving...and wishing /
hoping / praying / keeping our fingers crossed will not help make
these louts take-up stamp collecting, instead of "DX'ing".
What will it finally take until we collectively say, "Enough is
enough!"...?
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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