[SCCC] Intentional QRM

[Art]

I'm mad. I'm going to be unpopular. Who cares, y'all say??

This relates to contesting in the sense that a pileup is contesting, 
altho it's really DXing.

Last night I had to work J5C 3 times to think I had one QSO. Not because 
I couldn't hear him. I just happened to choose a great freq where he 
could hear my call. So could the lids. All the lids and kids were 
calling on my freq  while I tried to complete the QSO. And I never did 
get a firm confirmation of contact, so had to work him again today.

Now I'm on a tear. Listening on 80 to J5C tonight, specifically for 
butthead QRMers, was a lesson. N9OY. W6QUV. W7KNT. W0GG. N0VD. NI6T. A 
host of others, these lids had big sigs easily scanned for, not a one 
even remotely like the call J5C was replying to. I don't know ya, hope I 
never need to. Likely this will cost me acquaintances. Like I said, I'm mad.

There were many posts recently about semi-intentional QRM, the recently 
accelerating trend to incessantly call when it is clear the DX is trying 
to complete a QSO with an entirely unrelated callsign, and exactly zero 
beat with the station the DX is trying to work....leaving no doubt the 
lid can actually hear the DX, so that the world knows you're a lid.

Unacceptable conduct.

I'm not perfect. But. I don't do it intentionally, like I hear these 
dopes doing. If I'm out of line on the air, fine. Chastise me severely, 
like what happened  on J5C on 160 when I started calling CQ naqp on 29.6 
with them on 30.0. It happens (no packet allowed on naqp so I didn't 
know, and nil in my rx). The intentional crap has to stop somewhere. If 
more of us were to make significant note of it, maybe we could stop some 
of it.

One line of thought is work em thru the lids, make the point that way. 
OK, I do that too when I can with my modestly effective setup. That 
won't get folks to stop it.

Like CBers on 10. If nobody does anything nothing will happen. If you 
can't hear DON'T CALL. If he didn't come back to something that at least 
minimally resembles your callsign, DON'T CALL. Whoever 'you' is, me 
included.

Just my insignificant opinion.

73 Art