[RTTY] Comments on TX5C RTTY Operations

[Gordon Bousman]

On Wednesday, I was trying to contact TX5C on 20 Meters for 1-/2 hours.
It was simply maddening to keep seeing people calling on his transmit 
frequency.
I counted 22 hams (I started writing down callsigns as I got madder and 
madder)
who kept calling on his freq in spite of many requests to stop transmitting 
on his freq.
One "4" land call even decided to tune up on the frequency.  Eleven of those 
22 calls
were 1 x 2 calls and I have to assume that they must be more experienced 
hams.
I saw two guys just totally lose it with one spouting obscenities because of 
this stupidity.
I finally got so mad myself that I had to shut my rig off.  Apparently "UP 
UP UP" has no
meaning to some RTTY ops.  I am frankly dumbfounded at the poor operating 
skills
that I observed from so many operators.

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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:18:11 -0500
> From: Dick Kriss <aa5vu at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [RTTY] Comments on TX5C RTTY Operations
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> On 11-March-08 the TX5C operation came up on 20 meter
> RTTY and was signing with "UP EU" and it seemed to be going
> well for a long time. When the operator changed to "UP NA",
> it became a total mess.  US stations (with call signs that
> should know better) were trying to get he operator's attention
> by calling on his transmit frequency.  What part of "UP NA" do
> they not understand?  After what seemed like a long time,
> the zoo finally settled down.