I was taught to listen first, then transmit. Hard to listen with the AF gain all the way down. Once one is established on a frequency, turn it down, if you QSY, listen again.
ve3bdr From: Ralph Mowery Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:29 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY and common courtesy Let me get this right. You want a station to ask if the frequency is in use. That is understandable except he will be on RTTY and you are on another sound card mode. Many times stations do not even have the audio running now. They are just looking at a digital display and clicking on the signals. If it does not look like a rtty signal then it is ignored. I don't do contest either except for some at field day and some vhf and above contest. ----- Original Message ---- From: KB3FXI <kb3...@yahoo.com> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, July 18, 2010 12:57:03 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY and common courtesy I agree. And while I have little or no interest in contesting, I can appreciate it as being a big part of amateur radio and does have value in practice and experience in understanding exchanges and band conditions/propagation. And for a great many people, it's just plain old fun. But, there's really no excuse for ops to just pop on a frequency that is in use. What the 3 ops did on the net I was participating in last night was really inexcusable. I helped with a special event station yesterday and on ever qsy I first listened and put out 3 calls asking if the freq was in use. This procedure took about 1 minute of my time and I was assured that I was not interfering with a qso in progress. It's just common sense and common courtesy. -Dave, KB3FXI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.839 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3013 - Release Date: 07/18/10 02:35:00
