Topband: Outing The Scofflaws...

[Cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

Nice idea, but the majority of the really terrible stuff is done by guys  
who don't sign their call....tuning up, or pretending to be the DX station, 
or  some kind of intentional interference.  We've all done the wrong VFO 
thing  and sent our call on the DX stations freq.  That is easily identified but 
 not the main problem.
 
As far as a bad guy list...what's to stop someone from sending yours or my  
call over and over on the station, thereby getting us on the bad guy list.  
 Maybe it is someone you or I supposedly POed in the past, or maybe the guy 
is  just plain nuts and used our calls at random.
 
The problem in the 60s and 70s was mostly stupidity and traffic cops.   I 
agree it's gotten much worse than that now.
 
Bill K4XS/KH7XS
 
 
In a message dated 11/12/2012 4:00:59 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,  
deswynar at xplornet.ca writes:

Here's  an idea that I'll toss up into the air as a (possible) first step 
in bringing  a few of these lawless characters to heel:

Maintain some sort of an  open-to-all web page that is frequented by 
would-be future DX'peditions that  contains a master list of the call signs of 
those habitual displayers of  stupid behaviour and poor decorum in pile-ups. 
"Members" of this select "club"  would have earned their posting ONLY if their 
repeated crass procedures were  duly noted and recorded by no less than 
THREE previous DX-peditions, and/or  TEN "domestic" listeners attempting to get 
through in a pile-up...

I  think that such numbers would effectively rule-out the possibility of 
error,  especially such numbers as might be posted by actual past  
DX-peditions.

>From the sound of things, DX-peditions are fast going the  route of the 
lawless wild, wild west anymore. How long will it be before those  who go 
through all of the considerable financial & logistical hurdles in  mounting such 
forays in the far flung corners of the world might finally throw  up their 
hands in disgust & say that all of the work is simply not worth  it...?

If anyone has any better suggestions for improvement, let's hear  
them...after all, we Hams are supposed to take considerable pride in our being  a 
"self-policing" lot---so what are we waiting for...?

~73~ de Eddy  VE3CUI -  VE3XZ


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