Robin and the list,
>The combined dupe rate for both the 96 and
>98 trips exceeds 20 percent!!
This is an incredible number!
Regardless of the reality, we are and should be a self policing
service. Along with this comes accountability. I for one, would
encourage DX stations and their pilots to publish the callsigns of
offending "dupers" or make a point of it right then and there on
the air. "NOT IN THE LOG" would be an appropriate punishment as well.
This is *especially* true if the logs are being published on a frequent
basis here on the internet.
Remember, guys, that "insurance" contact you are making is absolutely
depriving a fellow ham of a first contact! Just because you *can*
make the qso is no justification for doing so. Put on the other shoe
for a minute and remember how if feels to be deprived of a new contact
because someone with a better antenna or bigger amp is blasting away.
Rant off.
BTW, Robin, THANK YOU for a marvelous effort. Although from here in the
upper upper midwest of iron-ore laden Minnesota we were unable to work you,
I could hear you regularly. It was good to even hear zone 26 on Topband,
let alone get a chance to work it. We really appreciate your efforts on
our behalf. Thanks for hanging in there and being on time every day.
Larry Menzel, N0XB
Northfield, MN
At 09:36 PM 12/21/98 -0800, wb6tza@compuall.net wrote:
>
>I must STRONGLY echo and support Alex TL5A comments on dupes/insurance
>contacts. several mornings i had several stations call for "insurance"
>qsos covering up the few minutes of good propigation right at my sunrise.
>the last morning of operations, I worked 9 "NINE!!" dupes in a row,
>despite my pleading with them NOT to dupe me, they called again. I
>consider this very incosiderate, and not consistent with good operating
>practice on the Gentlemans band. I arranged at considerabe effort to
>deliver a list of stations worked EACH DAY to be posted on our web site, in
>order to reduce this trouble. The combined dupe rate for both the 96 and
>98 trips exceeds 20 percent!! I believe some of these discourteous folks
>would very quickly change their practice if they once had to tolerate a
>night of buzzing and crashing with signals below the noise, only to have a
>dupe drift up out of the noise after trying hard for 20 minutes to identify
>a signal.
>
>73
>robin critchell, wa6cdr, topband captain, XZ1N
>
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