Do a test like I did this morning on the VU7 pileup.....
When he responds to someone, listen up and do
a number guess on the amount of people who start calling again
My God cant be that many bad packet ops ???
People dont give a S**T anymore, is ok to be crude,
rude and stupid , since it seems alot of other folks
are the same.
Guess I'm discouraged that so many cant operate
their radios in a courteous manner...
Ask K9RB , the VU7 made 3 attempts yesterday on
RTTY to get his confirmation... Why ??
I listened , everyone started calling on his freq, causing
qrm for the VU7...
No more CW requirement, dumbed down exams etc..
I suppose we cant complain ....
Glenn VA3DX
>
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 2:40 PM, va3dx@sympatico.ca wrote:
> >
> >>> I don't think Jim was blaming packet per se, just that it makes it
> >>> easier for the lids to jump on a frequency all at once. Without
> >>> packet
> >>> in the olden days, it took some time and that spread out the QRM.
> >>> Nowdays a single packet spot can cause havoc.
> >
> > Packet may help them find the pileup, but it wont prevent
> > poor operators from giving ill timed, incessant calls.....
>
> You have to think percentages, Glenn.
>
> There is always a small fraction who calls accidentally...
>
> ... and there will always be a fraction who calls out of turn as a
> habit, although it is debatable if the fraction itself is actually
> increasing.
>
> (Even if it is increasing, the fraction itself can't keep increasing
> by very much per year -- otherwise in a span of just ten years,
> everybody will be calling out of turn :-P.)
>
> A packet spot will bring in more ops. If the fraction of poor ops
> remains the same, the absolute number of them is larger with the
> existence of the packet mechanism.
>
> Get rid of packet, and the absolute number of out of turn callers
> will go down.
>
> Didn't one of the MicroLite operations (the one to Thule and King
> George?) specifically asked that people *not* spot them?
>
> It is funny that this topic cropped up because just recently, a
> DXpedition station had called out one of our big gun RTTY ops on this
> reflector as being an offender who kept stomping on a weak station
> while the DX was trying to work the weak station. I was watching the
> pile while this was happening and could see that the DX had not
> mistaken the call sign. So I guess it happens to all of us now and
> then.
>
> I also saw the same DX station call out someone who'd repeatedly
> transmitted on his frequency and not working the transgressor for an
> hour even after he had moved away from the DX' frequency. The
> offender was pleading over and over in long messages, after he'd
> moved and you know the DX was reading it since he would be quiet when
> the groveling was occurring :-).
>
> There are some stations who are consistent pests and I am sure each
> of us has our own mental "black book."
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
>
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