Topband: Outing The Scofflaws...

[Shoppa, Tim]

I think we have to be careful, that innocent regular users of 160M for non-DX and non-PT0S-DX, don't get swept up as "calling PT0S". Especially with the DX sometimes listening UP through a broad swath of the band... and other times listening DOWN through a different swath... we don't know who they're listening too.

(Then there's the DX that says they're listening up when really listening down!) There are other stations in the world, we all can remember :-)

Tim N3QE
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From: Topband [topband-bounces at contesting.com] on behalf of Jim Brown [jim at audiosystemsgroup.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:29 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Outing The Scofflaws...

On 11/12/2012 8:36 AM, N1BUG wrote:
> I question how many good operators would have the... [ahem]
> "courage".... to out the offenders.

I am sufficiently disgusted with behavior in the pileups tonight and
last night to observe that some using VE3XB repeatedly called PT0S when
PT0S was repeatedly calling NN6L. Since VE3 is about 2,000 miles closer
to PT0S than I am, and because he was calling over, and over, and over,
I'd say it's likely that he would have been copying PT0S at least as
well as I was, and I had no trouble telling that PT0S was calling NN6L.

Only one example.

73, Jim K9YC
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