[RTTY] Disturbing Observations

[Charlesjr at afgimail.com]

Don,
There is one station that has been doing that for some time. The first time I noticed it is when he 
had his macro setup to qsy 2nd qrg. Which I qsy'd and worked him on the 2nd qrg and when I went 
back to the other it was already sending out his cq when I know the other one was still sending. So 
I had a look a few minutes. At times he would stop both in mid cq as if he was having some software 
problems. In that instance I put it down to software/hardware problems. I moved on but had a look 
in the next contest and saw the same.

I thought the software/hardware would prevent that? I'm getting ready to set up so2r. WL appears to 
stop two signals at one time depending on how you set it up.

I think someone used your call, aa5au , to spot a negative comment on the 3c0c operation. Seems a 
lot of that is going on recently in every dx-pedition and they don't have a clue what is going on 
at the dx-ped end.
73
charles/kk5oq




------- Original Message -------
>From    : Don Hill AA5AU[mailto:aa5au at bellsouth.net]
Sent    : 6/14/2010 1:04:24 AM
To      : rtty at contesting.com
Cc      : 
Subject : RE: [RTTY] Disturbing Observations

 As I tuned around the bands during the last 8 hour segment, I found a USA SO2R station 
transmitting on both 15 and 20 meters at the
same time in a blatant violation of the rules.  It wasn't a case of someone just making a mistake.  
I watched for 15-20 minutes and
simply couldn't believe what I was seeing.  I did let them know he or they were breaking the rules 
and he/they immediately stopped.
But it made me mad.

Then a little while longer, I saw my call pop up on the bandmap on 20 meters even though I was S&P 
on that band.  At first I thought
someone made a mistake.  Then I looked at the origin of the spot and realized it was a station I 
had just worked.  This operator
spotted me on his run frequency.  Although that is not a direct violation of the rules, it still 
irked me.

I don't know how much of this goes on, but it needs to stop.  The next time I catch someone 
transmitting two signals at the same
time, I will call them out publicly on it.  I realize there will be instances of stations 
transmitting at the same time (Multi-2,
Multi-Multi).  But the rules of the DLDC were specific:

4. GENERAL for all categories:

(e) Only one transmitted signal is permitted at any time.

As far as spotting other stations on one's run frequency, it's just the wrong thing to do.  There 
have been times, such as when I
was on ten meters, when I wanted to spot someone on my run frequency just to let everyone else know 
the band was open.  But I
didn't.  So don't get caught up in it.

There's been a lot of cheating going on in CW and SSB contests and it's apparent there is cheating 
on RTTY too.  I'm not sure what
we can do about it other than make it a point to let people know we aren't going to tolerate it.  
I'm definitely not going to
tolerate it.

73, Don AA5AU
 http://www.aa5au.com 
 http://www.rttycontesting.com  

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