Hi Tom,
That "poor ops" comment actually cuts both ways.
The op running is being poor for not IDing frequently and the S&P station is
being a poor op for calling a station when he doesn't know who he's calling.
If an operator doesn't know who he's calling and is just a dupe, then he's
unnecessarily adding QRM.
Regardless how you feel about ops who don't ID as frequently as you would
like them to, two wrongs will never add up to a right.
Is a guy who comes across a pileup and starts dumping his call in
indiscriminately any better than the guy chasing spots and dumping his call
in without listening?
73, kelly
ve4xt
On 12/21/14 4:25 PM, "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com> wrote:
> Hi Pete
>
> You are right on this one.
>
> And if you depend on the cluster for people to figure what your call is,
> then it's you fault you are being duped.
>
> One way to make sure they have your call right is to give it
> frequently. The good op's do that - poor op's don't and get duped a
> lot. 73
> Tom W7WHY
>
>
> On 12/21/2014 7:17 AM, Peter Chamalian W1RM wrote:
>> Now I can appreciate the situation where you suddenly get a rash of dupes --
>> it suggests one of two things -- they aren't work you or something else is
>> spotted on your run frequency. The latter is easily solved by signing your
>> call frequently! The former, well that's life in the big city (:->).
>>
>> Happy Holidays all!
>>
>>
>> Pete, W1RM
>
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