Then there is the opposite. The true high performers like Cn2r who identify
with every transmission. Listening to the mp3 files on cn2r website gives an
insight into best practice pileup handling.
Vk4ti
Trent Sampson
0408 497550
On 30/11/2010, at 10:20 AM, David Levine <david@levinecentral.com> wrote:
> Shane,
>
> I operated assisted and not sending the call was still frustrating. I don't
> use the cluster as the authoritative source of the station's call so I wait
> to hear the call sign. There were many incorrectly spotted stations and if
> folks went off that and didn't wait for the calling station to id, they
> probably will get dinged for it. There were stations with mis-typed calls
> and there were completely different stations on frequency then what the spot
> indicated, like from station 1 moving away and station 2 moving in.
>
> And as a follow-up reply indicated, when a station finally did send their
> call sign, it was a dogpile on the rabbit with a bunch of folks doing the
> right thing and waiting for an id. I often moved to a different station if
> someone went 3 exchanges without sending their id and just sending TU.
>
> The split stations were rough to deal with since they at best sent "UP" but
> didn't indicate where. Some of the spots had the up less then 1Khz. I don't
> think I ended up working any of the split stations though I tried a couple.
> This is supposed to be fun, not frustrating.
>
> K2DSL - David
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Shane Mattson-->K1ZR
> <k1zr@comcast.net>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Is it me or is the issue with DX signing their call sign once every 1-3
>> minutes (sometimes more!) getting extremely frustrating? The worst example
>> was a station in the Africa region who decided to run split on
>> 15M and informed callers of their callsign and RX frequency every 1-3
>> minutes causing a pileup of callers on their TX frequency and a swath of
>> stations sending 'Up', 'Up', 'Up'. Seriously, not everyone relies on packet
>> spots and it would be great if the DX could sign their call every 4-5 q's.
>> This is where bogus spots on the cluster cause major problems as I'm sure
>> that those who simply point and shoot to a spotted mult work 'em and move on
>> before actually hearing the station's call. Help!
>>
>>
>>
>> -Shane K1ZR
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