Topband: Cheating etc

[Michael Walker]

To put it simply

You are only cheating yourself.

It is not up to me to control other adults.

Mike va3mw


On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 6:43 AM Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> Personally, I don't really care what anyone else does !
>
> I achieved DXCC on 160m many years ago . . . and stopped even counting new
> countries once I had worked over 200.  (it used to be really hard, as so
> few
> Countries were licensed for Top Band, but these days almost everyone is)
>
> I KNOW I worked those stations . . . but never bothered collecting QSL
> cards
> or applying for some piece of paper to put on the wall. To me it's about
> the
> SATISFACTION of having achieved something.
>
> In fact - as I've stated before on here - I'm really not bothered about
> working somebody in a rare country . . . it's working ANY distant station
> on
> Top Band that gives me a buzz . . . and regardless of how many times I've
> worked that station before.
>
> The same goes for Contests . . . decades ago I used to actually enter Top
> Band contests . . . but it really holds no interest for me having hundreds
> of quite easy contacts hour after hour . . . I now just come on to try and
> pick out the DX stations in-between all the strong Europeans (again, a
> unique problem on 160m, as there is no Skip) - THAT to me is an
> achievement.
>
> Again, I am not bothered about the people using their Computer to have
> contacts . . . it would never interest me in a million years, as I feel
> there is no operator or equipment skill involved, so zero satisfaction.
> But
> hey, if it floats some people's boats, that's up to them.
>
> The only thing that DOES bother me is when people stop coming on
> Human-based
> modes on 160m because they think the only activity is on the Computer modes
> !
>
> If more people make an effort to come on the band (instead of complaining)
> there WILL be more CW & SSB DX activity on Top Band !
>
> Anyway . . . hope to work some of you in the Contest this weekend. (Had to
> put my antenna back up yesterday, as it came down in the Gales we had over
> here !)
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
>
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