>>> W6NF says:
>>> One station just simply sent "up" with no direction as to how far. I
figured it out by finding the din of signals, almost a kHz wide.
There used to be a rule unfortunately almost forgotten by now, UP without a
clear designation means by default +1 on CW, +2 on RTTY and +3 on SSB.
>>> W6SX has committed to not working any station that runs split in a
contest. If enough of us do that it will, hopefully, kill the practice.
Why, why and why?
Last Sunday ZK2V started a run on 10 m. It was quite OK for some time but as
the pile up was building and more and more unruly callers came along, the
run had stopped completely. The reason for that is clear, when there are
dozens of 599+20 non-stop callers on top of the much weaker ZK2 signal,
working the ZK2 turned to be impossible because ZK2V simply was not heard
anymore. ZK2V was simply forced to go for split, and when he did that, the
run relieved back again.
Actually ZK2V had 2 more options, to get emotional and turn off completely
or to look for a new freq and to start running until the pile-up is unruly
again, and so on time by time. But he behaved responsibly and did not leave
dozens of those looking for a contact with ZK2 and calling him for quite
some time. The split helped both ZK2V and numerous callers (including yours
truly...).
73,
Vladimir VE3IAE
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