[RTTY] CW Op Complaints

[Thomas Giella KN4LF]

Hello to everyone. I left the reflector and bands in August as I prepared to move to a newly purchased quiet QTH on top of a big hill in Lakeland, FL. I'm still setting my radio station up but have been back on the digital modes since mid October.

I've noticed the increase in complaints from CW ops about other modes infringing upon their sacred gentleman's agreement sub bands during contests and even during non contest periods. Yet they maul the digital and phone sub bands during their contests and create intentional interference for digital ops during non contest periods. But they see no hypocrisy in their thinking and conduct.

Everytime I operate PSK31, MFSK16 and RTTY below 1810 kc and around 7035 kc for DX I suffer intentional CW op interference. It's usually a string of dits on top of my signal or an endless CQ. In my personal opinion derived from observation CW ops are the most inconsiderate and intransigent group on the bands and I preface that by saying that I work CW every day. Of course I also find digital ops to be the most friendly and well mannered.

73 & GUD DX,
Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Lakeland, FL, USA
Grid Square EL97AW
27 57 26.5 N 81 56 46.6 W
kn4lf at arrl.net

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: FireBrick 
  To: RTTY List 
  Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 7:51 AM
  Subject: [RTTY] did anyone write


  a nastygram to that fellow a few weeks ago who complained about rtty in 'his' cw band 
  about all the cw this weekend reaching up into the psk/rtty portions of 40 and 20 meters. 
  hihi

  I was in SS and was quite surprised to see stations working at 7080 and not a single 
  complaint from rtty type. (tongue in cheek)
  I guess we are more 'gentlemanly'. :-)))


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