Topband: Ticked over intentional interference on top band

[Mike & Coreen Smith]

There is hardly a station closer to Jack on 160m than me. ( a couple 
VE1's/VY2's maybe) and yes, I'll be one of the first to admit his keying is 
indeed a bit "hard", but I wouldn't say he's especially wide.  He's about 
60/9 here, but I have never thought he was QRMing me by his keying.  (if 
anything, just brute signal strength probably more than anything)

I've heard much worse coming out of other parts of Eastern NA with stations 
that are much weaker and take out "segments" of the band with horrendous key 
clicks or problems with their amplifiers.

VE9AA

Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
NB
Canada
E6L 1T1
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eddy Swynar
  To: Roger D Johnson
  Cc: topband at contesting.com
  Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 9:07 AM
  Subject: Re: Topband: Ticked over intentional interference on top band



  On 2012-01-21, at 6:32 AM, Roger D Johnson wrote:

  > Unfortunately, VE1ZZ has a terrible signal with key clicks out to 
over1kHz
  > from his carrier frequency. Perhaps the other chap had a signal he was
  > trying to copy wiped out by ZZ and decided to get even.


  Hi Roger,

  Sez who...?

  Jack's keying may well be a tad on the hard side, but his signal HARDLY 
emits "...key clicks out to over 1 KHz from his carrier frequency", 
IMHO...and I've copied him at some 30 db.+ over S-9 here, too, so if he was, 
indeed, "clicky", I think I'd know...

  There seems to be a clique of anal "Kilocycle Klix Kops" on 160-meters 
that is obsessed with key clicks, & is quick to condemn---much too quick to 
condemn, IMHO---guys like Jack. Far be it for me to suggest that you're a 
part of that "elite" group, Roger, but I know from personal experience that 
"...perception is reality", and if so-called tribal knowledge on the band 
has it that Jack is guilty, then he's been effectively branded as such for 
life.

  It's not fair, & it's not becoming of anyone who aspires to be one in a 
league of gentlemen to criticize one's fellows in a medium to which said 
fellow may not be a party of, and thus unable to defend himself...I know: 
I've been there myself personally, and I did NOT like it.

  ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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  UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK


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