[3830] TBDC AC6DD Single Op HP

[Jim Brown]

On 12/19/2010 11:30 PM, 3830-request at contesting.com wrote:
> I was severely lacking RX capabilities.

You certainly were.  You didn't hear me (only 100 miles north of you, 
running 1.5kW into a pretty decent vertical) 250 Hz below you, where I 
had been for more than one hour, and had just worked ZL3IX and the first 
of the JAs who were beginning to come through. I was rolling just fine 
until your clicks and phase noise (only 25dB down 500 Hz either side of 
your CW note, as compared to other much stronger signals who are down a 
good 40 dB or more) killed my rate.  In fact, I never had another call 
after you set up shop and started throwing trash on my frequency.  Would 
YOU put up with that?  I doubt it.

> So much to my surprise Tim (Rory) shows up on my Frequency.  At first he asks
> me to QSY, because according to him I have bad clicks.
> Since I have seen this routine before I ask for some Identification.  There is
> no reply.

Apparently your CW reader stops at 26 wpm. I sent my call a fair number 
of times.
>   I keep on with my CQ's.
> He comes back and asks me to QSY again as I have bad clicks, and now gives me a
> 9 area call sign.

Perhaps you're the one who was drinking -- I've been contesting from 
this QTH for five years, and you're in my log at least a half dozen 
times, and the real contesters around here know me. Chicago?  How old is 
your prefill?

> I am thinking, "What the hell is Rory doing in Chicago?  This couldn't be
> Rory!"  I ask "QSY where? 80 meters?"
> He says yes, and starts ripping CQ's on my Frequency.  Darn it is he! So I call
> CQ too.  Knowing him, he would not last.

But clearly your ego can't admit that your transmitter might be dirty -- 
or perhaps you think that's OK, just another way of playing schoolyard 
bully.  Ironic isn't it -- you show up with a dirty transmitter on a 
frequency that I've been running for more than an hour, with your elbows 
flying (clicks and phase noise), but because my rig is clean, you can 
make Qs, but because your rig is dirty, you do just fine.

One of the responsibilities of running high power in a crowded band is 
to have a clean transmitter. It's long past time that you learned that. 
Top class contesters understand this -- I can work within a few hundred 
Hz of N6RO, K6TA, K6XX, K5RC without a problem, but not with a trash 
machine like yours.

 > I also heard people calling Rory, but he never replied.

Not true -- when I did reply to those calling, you called CQ on top of 
them.

73, Jim Brown K9YC