Topband: Outing The Scofflaws...

[Gary Smith]

I know that I've been QRM on top of the DXPedition I've been trying 
to get, always accidentally but I've been on the Tx frequency & 
calling when the DX is looking for specific locations ile EU/AF/OC & 
so on. I've never intentionally QRMed anyone. As I said though, I've 
made unwitting mistakes.

I can only figure one possible how someone is exactly on PTOS Fx and 
repeated keep calling directly on the DX Transmit frequency and that 
is that they have their radio set split and then reversed it while 
still listening to both frequencies simultaneously. This way they 
would hear the DX call but not know they were actually transmitting 
on the calling frequency.

I think to ascribe that scenario to most of the callers is manganous, 
most I think put blinders on when calling and only focus on the DX 
calling back to them and all the UP & SPLIT & LID passes right over 
them,. Sometimes calling their call on frequency and saying up 5 will 
do it but most of them are hogs at the trough and are oblivious to 
everything except what they are listening for.

As to people calling when it obviously not them being called, I 
suspect on the innocent side of it & using my KA1J call for example, 
I hear a KA? Of course I reply till I hear the DX confirm or deny. I 
hear a 1o, there's a problem, I often have to correct DX that my call 
is ka1j not ka1o, they miss the dit at the beginning of the j. & 
there's different permutations where my munged call might be what 
they are coming back to. Sometimes I send my call with a ?BK and that 
works in my favor sometimes he was trying to hook someone else.

But back to farm animals, I think most of the people around the world 
that keep calling when the DX is obviously trying to pull a specific 
call out of the mud are selfishly hoping to overpower the station the 
DX is working on and hope that their signal will be clear enough that 
the DX gores to them and then the 1st station can try again if they 
want. The People who are doing this are pigs and do it deliberately. 

I find this incredibly offensive.

I remember a 2M SOB back in the E. St. Louis area who used to jam one 
of the St. Louis repeaters. All kinds of jamming styles; a frequent 
one was where he would speak in tongues and tell everyone he was 
speaking to China. One day his station was off the air and he never 
came back on the rest of the time I was there. Local clean-up I 
understand. I understand no farm animals were injured.

Gary
KA1J