[SCCC] Incessant QRM

[Jim Neiger]

But with the smash you're running, Dan, I expect that you never have this 
problem, and simply de-sensitize everyone else's RX?

Jim  N6TJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Radiodan-W7RF" <rfpower at radiodan.com>
To: "'Art'" <k6xt at arrl.net>; "'Grand Mesa Contesters'" 
<gmc at mailman.qth.net>; "'sccc'" <sccc at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [SCCC] Incessant QRM


> 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!
> HENRY, BIRD, TOHTSU, SAMLEX, RFI chokes
> www.radiodan.com RFpower at radiodan.com
>
>
> -----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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