TopBand: Whose QSX frequency is this?

[km1h @ juno.com]

Jeff's book left out one other rule:

Only DX Hogs work the same station or country over and over again;
particularly when many new operators need it the first  time. 

Maybe what this reflector needs is a list of those who are on a daily ego
trip to the detriment of the weaker stations who really need the DX. 

Just a thought....I certainly have my list.

BTW, I am not talking about regular QSO's with friends or a real need to
test a new antenna/repairs, etc. ......just the ego gratifying constant
pile-up callers. 

73  Carl  KM1H  "always LISTENING"





On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:45:55 -0500 (EST) Bill Tippett <btippett@CTC.Net>
writes:
>        Here's a lesson for all of us (expeditioners and DXers alike).
>I just checked the 5A2A log search on their Web page and got this:
>
>5A2A Log Search Results
>
>The Database contains the following log entries:
>
>     W4ZV is in the log on 160m CW, contact made on 25-Nov-97
>     W4ZV is in the log on 160m CW, contact made on 25-Nov-97
>
>Huh????  5A2A is only in my log once, but I was wondering why there 
>was
>such a big pileup on P40E who was QSX up 2 when I worked him at 0240!
>Then I found 5A2A who was listening on the SAME QSX frequency when I
>worked him at 0252.  Apparently 5A2A came back to me when I was 
>working
>P40E and put me in his log at 0240 also.  This happens quite often 
>when working a hot JA opening since many of them often use the same
>QSX frequency, and because we do not sign their call...just ours.  
>This
>goes back to Rule #8 in K1ZM's book: "Send the DX station's call if 
>you
>are in doubt about whom you are working."  I was not in doubt about
>either station when I worked them, but should have signed 5A2A's call 
>to
>alert P40E to the fact that they both were using the same QSX 
>frequency!
>(Of course I could not have done that when I worked P40E since I had 
>not yet found 5A2A.)  Isn't it awful when someone steals your QSX 
>freqeuency!  It's happened to me many times and there's really not a 
>good
>way to prevent these accidents from happening!
>
>73,  Bill  W4ZV
>
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