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Subject: TopBand: EU calling
From: km1h@juno.com (km1h @ juno.com)
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:09:17 EST
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:36:47 +0100 "Ragnar Otterstad"
<danmec@inet.uni-c.dk> writes:
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>> From: Peter Chadwick <Peter.Chadwick@gpsemi.com>
>> To: 'topband' <topband@contesting.com>
>> Subject: TopBand: EU calling
To: <topband@contesting.com>
>> Date: 27. november 1997 12:39
>> 
>> Further to G3NKC's comments, I was taught back when I got my licence
>> that in a pile up, when the DX came back to someone, everybody else
>> should keep quiet. If the DX came back with a partial call, only 
>those
>> who matched should transmit. How the guys at 5A2A managed so well, I
>> don't know. Every time they had a partial call, all EU seemed to be
>> calling them. I didn't know that GM, GI, GW and G were all in OE!
>
>This disgusting behaviour started on phone and has now crept down in 
>the CW
>band also. IMHO : I think there is only one cure, that the DX stn 
>never
>answer anybody out of turn and actively blacklist the worst offender  
>by
>announcing it on the air. Give them 1 or 2 days to cool down and then
>accept their calls.
>
>73   Rag  OZ8RO

The poor operators are out in force on this side of the pond also Rag.
The sad part is that some of the worse ones are on this reflector and
they just do not care how awful they appear.

73  Carl  KM1H

 
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