If I'm the DX, please don't send me my own callsign when trying to get
my attention in a pileup. It's just extra noise. All I want is your
call.
If you want to put my call (once) in your exchange, fine. I do, from
home, in fact.
OTOH, I always ID at least once each QSO, and when I'm working split
(always) you'll know it, if you can copy me. If you can't copy me, be
quiet until you can.
BTW, if I'm the DX, and you do something uncooperative, I will avoid
working you, all else being equal. I often have a choice of who to
work, and I work those who cooperate first.
From: W0YR@aol.com
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:57:06 EDT
Jim & Denny,
You can't win in a situation like this. The gadget boys, instead of tuning
around and looking for DX, now read funny books and monitor the DX clusters
waiting for someone for find the DX and spoon feed it to them.
This kind of abuse of some of our fellow operaters is unnecessary.
In order to be of maximum service to the packet kings I have
recently begun a new service. I find and work DX and then post the
DX on the packet with one small error in the callsign. YI1DD might
become YI1BD, just enough of an error that when the packet kings
send for their cards (never having actually heard the callsign of
the station they worked -- and never asking for it), they'll get a
nice "SRI, not in log" reply.
I figure its their comeuppance for taking such a lazy, simplistic and
offensive approach to working DX.
Don't spot at all if you're not going to cooperate.
I don't think it's new hams who are doing this. The very fellows
(and ladies) whom we should be helping along are cowed by the
all-encompassing rudeness in our hobby and it has lost a lot of its
attraction.
You mean like your posting?
73, doug
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