Exactly! -Dave, KB3FXI
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Rudy Benner" <ben...@...> wrote: > > 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...@...> > 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 >
