[SCCC] Incessant QRM

[Radiodan-W7RF]

Art,

With our responsibility and shame-free world as it has become I don't know
of a solution except to never roll over and just accept this behavior as
"accepted". Keep teaching those who really don't know any better and
hopefully, isolation of those who do know better but don't care will bring
them into the fold.

Maybe we can get rare DX stations to only use a bug (or a computer program
with randon "swing") to keep the MFJ code readers out!

Oh one more thing, I think in that pileup it was "QRX QRX QRX. Only the W7R"


Regards, Dan Magro W7RF
Multiple power ranges from ONE Bird element, ask me how!
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-----Original Message-----
From: sccc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:sccc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Art
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:34 PM
To: Grand Mesa Contesters; sccc
Subject: [SCCC] Incessant QRM

I've had a few responses from incessant QRMers that they do it because they
think the DX will work them faster.

This is absolutely not true. Listen to any good size pileup. What happens is
the DX has to repeatedly say things like "QRX QRX QRX. Only the K6X". And so
on. The DX could be exchanging reports but instead must
  first get the incessant QRM stopped.

The fact is, over all time, the3 rate of working DX decreases as a result of
incessant calling. Everyone worldwide is slowed because the QRMers choose to
be boorish DX hogs. What a great face to put on for all the world to hear.

Here's how it works. Every pileup has a hierarchy. Each of us has a position
on any given frequency based on signal strength, operating skills, timing
etc. If not at the top of that pile, you won't get worked until the DX peels
off the layers above you like an onion. When the DX does, you'll get worked.
Until then, if you're calling out of turn, you're just intentional QRM. Your
only effectivity is to increase the background noise, which is equivalent to
reducing the signal to noise ratio of the staion the DX wants to work.

There is only one shortcut. That is to accurately place your transmitter on
the frequency the DX will visit next, call at just the right time, and be
the only one or the loudest one on that freq. That, my incessant caller
friends, is a learned skill. No amount of dumping your call on top of the
station the DX is currently trying to work will train you for it. And until
you do learn it, welcome to the bleachers. You'll be one of the ops with
that crestfallen look who allows as how "I called and called and called, but
the pileup was just too big."

"Well, Mr. Motormouth", you say, "fine. You've been DXing for 50 years. 
How did you learn it?"

It has very little to do with how big the station is, although that
certainly helps in how fast things get done. For example I worked VU7RG on 3
bands with 100W and a wire, about as remote from me as DX can get. 
They were S-nothing the whole time. No big station here. Here it comes, oh
so painful. There are two elements to learning it. Each has 3 parts. 
Ready? Turn  the page: Practice, practice, practice. Listen, listen, listen.

More information from one of our senior DXperts can be found here. Pay
special attention to paragraph two and the sentence following.

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2002/03/01/3/

73 Good DX
Art
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