Tom,
Come on, the op needs to take contrrol. If he doesn't, it gets out of
hand! Let's all quit whining!
Bob K3UL
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 W8JITom@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 96-12-31 00:01:45 EST, you write:
>
> >
> >Maybe we ought to quit spotting 160 meter DX. The fellow was QSX up. Guys
> >were calling on his freq. Someone kept sending UP every couple of seconds.
> >Then someone
> >would respond NO. What a mess!
>
> Yep, I went up to watch TV after the mess started. People not even called
> were having ghost QSO's with him, transmitting on his frequency and QRMing
> him while pretending to work him, while the guys he really answered never
> knew he did because of the near zero beat QRM from the imaginary QSO's.
>
> It sounds more and more like 20 meters, and less and less like 160.
>
> Too bad we can't work a kHz or two up, and answer only when we really know he
> replied. Removing the old split frequency operation was the worse thing to
> happen to DX on 160.
>
> 73 Tom
>
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