[RTTY] Comments on TX5C RTTY Operations

[Art Searle W2NRA]

Hi Nelson,

I made a similar mistake.  I had been calling split and decided to do some 
longer listening, rather than just using the momentary REV button like I 
usually do to find where he was working, I swapped VFOs.  When I finished 
listening I forgot to swap VFOs back.  I called a few times before I 
noticed.  I never heard the cops because I was listening in the wrong place. 
Hey, this is a tough admission.  I'm embarrassed and wish I could take it 
back.  But it happened because I got lazy and instead of using the REV 
button like I always do, I swapped VFOs.  So shoot me!

On another note, I remember hearing a rather well known callsign repeatedly 
calling on the wrong VFO on another rare DXPedition.  I thought about 
venting a little by sending him an email.  When I looked him up on QRZ.com I 
saw that he was 92 years old.  I decided to cut him some slack.

73 Art W2NRA
"Keep to the Code!"
w2nra.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a at mchsi.com>


> OK, I confess, I transmitted on TX5C once by accident after taking a break
> from the 30 meter RTTY pileup to check other bands for propagation and
> forgetting I had disabled split mode in the process. It only took one
> transmission to bring out the cops, and the frequency was trashed by at
> least 2-3 of them for several seconds.
>
> Perhaps it's the increasing average age of hams in general that 
> exacerbates
> the problem, I notice that I've gotten more error-prone in the past 3 
> years,
> like forgetting to change the band switch on the amp or transmitting into
> the wrong antenna. Maybe we should all count to 10 before jumping on some
> senile offender to see if it's an accident by an otherwise knowledgeable 
> op,
> the result of ignorance and inexperience on the part of some newby, or
> intentional QRM from some miscreant that can't work the DX and resents the
> fact that others can.
>
> However, my all time pet peeve is the idiot that tunes up on the DX 
> transmit
> frequency when the DX is listening 15-20 kHZ up the band. Now why can't 
> the
> unwashed masses comprehend that if you're going to call the DX up 15-20 
> kHz,
> you probably should tune up where you are going to TRANSMIT, not where you
> are going to LISTEN!
>
> I relinquish my soap box to the next party in line.
>
> Nelson, KU0A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of MIKEHAACK at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:07 PM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Comments on TX5C RTTY Operations
>
>
> I'm not sure which one I find  more amusing.
>
> The folks calling the DX on their transmit  frequency
>
> Or
>
> The other folks who take time away from their  "busting the pileup" to
> correct them.
>
> Lets see, someone who might, just  might be transmitting in error vs 
> someone
>
> knowingly stepping on the DX  frequency.
> And which one of us hasn't ..at least once..swapped to the wrong  vfo in 
> the
>
> heat of a long awaited pileup.?
>
> What do you think  all....?
>
> Mike WB9B
/rtty