Jim,
Your pet peeve in #1 was a problem for me. I have a wire antenna so there's
a lot of noise from every direction. If I couldn't tell he was coming back
to me because of noise or splatter, I'd wait to see if he came back again
with my report. Most ops tried a couple times but some just said QRZ as if I
QSLed and moved on. I know near the end of my time on the air (early Sun
afternoon), I had a station in the clear and his response was that we worked
before - so I guess he gets a NIL and didn't want to deal with it. Would
have take less time to make an exchange for both of us.
Most stations were id'ing often. When they were able to say "thanks" or
"QRZ" and get the next station, I guess they didn't need to waste their
breathe. Sometimes I just marked in my band map (was running unassisted so I
wasn't using it for packet) there was a station there and moved on, and
sometimes I just called him and if he answered I asked what his call was.
But the ops were terrific - I didn't run into anyone that wasn't willing to
pull me out of the noise (100w and wire antenna) and some even said hello.
SSB is much more work then RTTY. It wears you out!
73,
K2DSL - David
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>wrote:
> 1. For the most part, running stations were identifying themselves
> often enough. 8P5A and PJ2T (and probably HC8A, I don't remember) were
> the standouts here. Way to go, guys!
>
> Pet peeve:
>
> QRZ <dx call>
> "AD1C"
> AD1C 59 <zone>
> "Thanks 5904"
> <dx call>
>
> So I did work him or not? Did he lose my puny signal in the
> QRM/QRM/QSB? Please say SOMETHING besides just your call. One
> station repeated the zone back to everyone. I liked that, especially
> since my zone doesn't match my callsign.
>
> 2. There were OH SO MANY USA stations operating too close to 7125.
> You may have seen comments in my packet spots, or announces directed
> at me, or from me on packet. If you don't know how LSB works, get
> your license manual and study up! There was similar problem on the
> high end of 20, but it was not nearly as bad as the low end of 40.
>
> I saw some unenlightened comments on the DX cluster about K3EST
> "policing" the bands. Please visit http://www.cqww.com people!
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
>
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