Topband: PT0S

[Michael Tope]

I should add that in fairness to K0MN, I don't know if that was actually 
him calling PT0S or someone bootlegging his call. I've seen at least one 
case (and I am sure there have been plenty of others) where the culprit 
is bootlegging the callsign of someone else. In the case I am thinking 
of, the culprit was jamming the DX qrg, not calling repeatedly out of 
turn (the latter being a more subtle way for a bootlegger to tarnish 
someone's reputation).

73, Mike W4EF...................

On 11/12/2012 8:13 AM, Michael Tope wrote:
> I'll name names. Last night on 80 meters, K0MN kept calling over and 
> over through the entire period (~15 minutes) when PT0S was listening 
> for JAs at his sunrise. To make matters worse, somebody decided it 
> would be helpful to read him the riot act on PT0S's frequency as in 
> "K0MN idiot" over and over (NOT! helpful). What's worse is that after 
> he quit listening JA only, PT0S worked K0MN (so much for Karma!). 
> Sending "A$$" and "FU" over and over when someone's tuning on the DX 
> QRG isn't helpful either.
>
> 73, Mike W4EF..........
>
> On 11/12/2012 7:26 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
>> On 2012-11-12, at 10:14 AM, Les Kalmus wrote:
>>
>>> I heard the same thing you did Gary but I wasn't able to break the 
>>> pileup on either band.
>>> I hope I can eventually get through what is among the worst 
>>> intentional QRM on a DX station that I have heard.
>>>
>>
>> There really should be a way of "...outing" some of these deliberate 
>> QRM generators...
>>
>> I realize that some of the stuff is being generated anonymously, but 
>> we all know the call signs of one, or more, "REPEAT offenders"---guys 
>> who continually insist upon calling out of turn, guys who repeatedly 
>> send their call signs right over top of existing QSOs, guys who 
>> repeatedly call on the DX stations transmit frequency, etc. etc. etc. 
>> ...in short, guys who just continually refuse to "get it."
>>
>> Years ago I wrote to ARRL & suggested they publish a monthly list of 
>> DX station non-QSLers in QST---much like they had a column called 
>> "Pre-Historic Signals" in 1929 when they were actively pushing to get 
>> Amateurs to "raise the bar" in the quality of their signals---but I 
>> never received so much as even an acknowledgement of my idea. I guess 
>> it wasn't in keeping with being polite & gentlemanly.
>>
>> Let's face it: the situation is HARDLY improving...and wishing / 
>> hoping / praying / keeping our fingers crossed will not help make 
>> these louts take-up stamp collecting, instead of "DX'ing".
>>
>> What will it finally take until we collectively say, "Enough is 
>> enough!"...?
>>
>> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>>
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