I seeing a lot of my thread thrown back at the reflector as "hillbilly hate
mail".
I think you guys are missing the point.
The SSB Sprint in particular is extremely disruptive and frustrating to
those who live on "75" phone. In other words, the arent ALL wrong! Yes,
they shouldnt start in with the profanity and jamming and all, but it's not like
they'll do it if they arent provoked.
IMHO, 80 meters in the evening is just not a suitable environment for this
contest. Even if EVERYONE asked if the frequency was in use before
transmitting (or even listened for Low Joe Dipole for 1 second), you can
imagine the problem:
..."Yea, Joe, that varmint scared 'ping..is the frequency in use?' out of
my Bessy... (another station steals the freq) 'CQ Sprint! OU812!'...have a cow!
'KR0Y!' ...Hey! the freq...'KR0Y 69 Eddie CA' ...use! 'OU812 88 Jeff TX KR0Y'..
'Rog'...It's those DAMN...'KF3P!'..test..'KF3P 10 million Jeff TX'...GET YOUR
F'ING...'KR0Y, Wow!..on phone, too!, number 5 Ty MD KF3P'.. '<pop>'...!#@$%^#$@
Sprint! WHAT THE HELL YOU...'CQ Sprint KF3P!'....
You can figure the rest of it out...
73, "Ty"
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