[RTTY] Have RTTY ops become SSB ops?

[Kok Chen]

On Dec 14, 2006, at 2:40 PM, va3dx at sympatico.ca wrote:
>
>>> I don't think Jim was blaming packet per se, just that it makes it
>>> easier for the lids to jump on a frequency all at once. Without  
>>> packet
>>> in the olden days, it took some time and that spread out the QRM.
>>> Nowdays a single packet spot can cause havoc.
>
> Packet may help them find the pileup, but it wont prevent
> poor operators from giving ill timed, incessant calls.....

You have to think percentages, Glenn.

There is always a small fraction who calls accidentally...

... and there will always be a fraction who calls out of turn as a  
habit, although it is debatable if the fraction itself is actually  
increasing.

(Even if it is increasing, the fraction itself can't keep increasing  
by very much per year -- otherwise in a span of just ten years,  
everybody will be calling out of turn :-P.)

A packet spot will bring in more ops.  If the fraction of poor ops  
remains the same, the absolute number of them is larger with the  
existence of the packet mechanism.

Get rid of packet, and the absolute number of out of turn callers  
will go down.

Didn't one of the MicroLite operations (the one to Thule and King  
George?) specifically asked that people *not* spot them?

It is funny that this topic cropped up because just recently, a  
DXpedition station had called out one of our big gun RTTY ops on this  
reflector as being an offender who kept stomping on a weak station  
while the DX was trying to work the weak station.  I was watching the  
pile while this was happening and could see that the DX had not  
mistaken the call sign.  So I guess it happens to all of us now and  
then.

I also saw the same DX station call out someone who'd repeatedly  
transmitted on his frequency and not working the transgressor for an  
hour even after he had moved away from the DX' frequency.  The  
offender was pleading over and over in long messages, after he'd  
moved and you know the DX was reading it since he would be quiet when  
the groveling was occurring :-).

There are some stations who are consistent pests and I am sure each  
of us has our own mental "black book."

73
Chen, W7AY