Well said Tom. Also it was doubtful there was actually a significant JA
opening to K1N. IMHO the buzz of JA activity could have occurred by a
remote JA station heard in the Midwest at 599 plus 10db who apparently
got in the log, but not from Japan. But other observers heard JA's
calling but it was also obvious there was no opening to speak of.
George AA7JV was not on the island yet due to bad sea conditions. He was
chosen as the weak signal guru and made careful planning to even put up
SW Beverages to bring in JA's if that wonderful skew path exists like it
did for me last month. With the TX antenna, an inverted Vee at 160 feet
ABG this was most likely the RX antenna as well. I believe that anyone
having difficulties will see improvements when the better RX are in
place. I would add that if Geroge (AA7JV) can't do it it would seem hard
pressed to find someone who could. K1N had a very good early TB opening
to Europe last night and at least 60 got in the log, probably more as I
stopped counting. The EU S/R was a different story.
The good news is that everyone will have multiple chances of working KP1
on TB. The bad news is that the public flogging had to take place out of
one brother amateur for a common occurrence. Now what happens if he is
the TB operator from PRNK when they open up? You better hope he hasn't
kept a list of all those that "doth protest to much."
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
On 2/4/2015 9:06 AM, Tom W8JI wrote:
Calling out of turn not only is one of the least damaging things and
most common things someone might do. As a matter of fact, assuming the
DX stations has a reasonable bandwidth CW filter, out of turn calling
is thousands of times less disruptive to others than transmitting on
the DX station's frequency, or spreading a pile up over 15-20 kHz.
I doubt making a whipping boy out of someone in public will have any
effect on the other 250,000 people who have done it at least once.
A simple email direct to the person would have been more reasonable
than a public two day flogging.
Are we getting cranking and set in our ways, or what? :)
73 Tom
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