Topband: Outing The Scofflaws...

[Jim Brown]

On 11/13/2012 7:56 AM, Chortek, Robert L wrote:
> Yes, sometimes it is accidental, and I have been guilty of calling when I should be listening.

Of course, but not for six or seven TX/RX cycles!  We should be calling 
ONLY when we can copy the DX station well enough to know what's going 
on. I drop my call once, usually at 30 wpm if prop is decent, pause a 
couple of beats to LISTEN, then repeat that cycle. Yes, I call 
repeatedly, but with pauses to LISTEN after every call.

Someone sent me an email noting that W3GH was repeatedly calling out of 
line, but "no one had the guts to tell him."

As to TX on the DX frequency -- that's a simple mistake, we've all done it.

73, Jim K9YC