EA5ON responded to K1TTT's review of spots in ARRL DX SSB:
>Spanish hams are doing a lot to try to clear up the image of boorish hams
>that has accompanied us for so many years, we're a long way along the road
>but things like this do still set us back some.
Sorry, but this is amateur radio today.
Like asking if a frequency is in use before calling CQ. Using your full
call to identify your station, or not firing up with SSB over the top of
some CW signal to try & get the station to switch modes.
Back home, you are some sort of weirdo foreigner to suggest otherwise.
I see so much abuse of spotting outside contests, it seems amateur
radio has become some sort of wireless ICQ.
73, 9M6BrettGraham
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