Topband: [Bulk] Re: Out-of-Turn Callers

[Doug Renwick]

The lynch mob is clearly out to get KK6ZM when he apparently did NOTHING
WRONG.  The mob is yelling 'crucify him', 'crucify him'.  It began with a
biased post that failed to see the whole picture and the mob ran with it.

Some of the posts have displayed a surprising level of ignorance to the
events.  Yet the mob wishes to ignore the facts.

One said "I'm glad Milt posted what he did".  Wrong - that should NEVER have
been posted in it's form.

Another said "This is not a capital offense...".  Wrong - In the situation
it was NOT an offence at all.

Another said "He made a mistake."  Wrong - he did NOT make a mistake.  He
was following the operators implied instructions when calling for JA and
working stateside instead.

Another said "no chance he'll make that mistake again." Wrong - he did NOT
make a mistake.

And this from someone who could be a mob leader "as a matter of courtesy i
sent KK6ZM a personal email suggesting that his behavior was totally wrong
when calling K1N and that an apology on the topband reflector would be in
order."

I could go on but I have made my point.

Tom, like you, I find this whole mess unsportsmanlike.  People taking their
inner hate out on someone who did nothing wrong.  People's nature has not
changed in thousands of years.  All this in a hobby that is supposed to be
fun.  You mobsters make me sick.

Doug

-----Original Message-----

Calling out of turn not only is one of the least damaging things and most 
common things someone might do. As a matter of fact, assuming the DX 
stations has a reasonable bandwidth CW filter, out of turn calling is 
thousands of times less disruptive to others than transmitting on the DX 
station's frequency, or spreading a pile up over 15-20 kHz.

I doubt making a whipping boy out of someone in public will have any effect 
on the other 250,000 people who have done it at least once.

A simple email direct to the person would have been more reasonable than a 
public two day flogging.

Are we getting cranking and set in our ways, or what? :)

73 Tom




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