The lynch mob is clearly out to get KK6ZM when he apparently did NOTHING
WRONG. The mob is yelling 'crucify him', 'crucify him'. It began with a
biased post that failed to see the whole picture and the mob ran with it.
Some of the posts have displayed a surprising level of ignorance to the
events. Yet the mob wishes to ignore the facts.
One said "I'm glad Milt posted what he did". Wrong - that should NEVER have
been posted in it's form.
Another said "This is not a capital offense...". Wrong - In the situation
it was NOT an offence at all.
Another said "He made a mistake." Wrong - he did NOT make a mistake. He
was following the operators implied instructions when calling for JA and
working stateside instead.
Another said "no chance he'll make that mistake again." Wrong - he did NOT
make a mistake.
And this from someone who could be a mob leader "as a matter of courtesy i
sent KK6ZM a personal email suggesting that his behavior was totally wrong
when calling K1N and that an apology on the topband reflector would be in
order."
I could go on but I have made my point.
Tom, like you, I find this whole mess unsportsmanlike. People taking their
inner hate out on someone who did nothing wrong. People's nature has not
changed in thousands of years. All this in a hobby that is supposed to be
fun. You mobsters make me sick.
Doug
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Calling out of turn not only is one of the least damaging things and most
common things someone might do. As a matter of fact, assuming the DX
stations has a reasonable bandwidth CW filter, out of turn calling is
thousands of times less disruptive to others than transmitting on the DX
station's frequency, or spreading a pile up over 15-20 kHz.
I doubt making a whipping boy out of someone in public will have any effect
on the other 250,000 people who have done it at least once.
A simple email direct to the person would have been more reasonable than a
public two day flogging.
Are we getting cranking and set in our ways, or what? :)
73 Tom
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