Jim:
I and the other ops in C9 earlier this month and part of June had the
same problem, its nothing particular to KH8SI. If I was calling for say
USA or by the numbers only, ops in one country especially would keep
coming back, no matter what I said. If I asked the offending station if
they were a say 6 and they were a 1 or if they were in the USA and they
were in Europe, they just gave me the signal report like they never
heard me calling by the numbers or anything else. Often I had to work
them because they were so strong they would blot out my entire listening
range of 5-10 khz. up and they wouldn't give up no matter what I said.
One of our ops, NE5EE/C91EE Dave, had a novel reply back to them. First
he said he was blacklisting their call in his log, then if they
persisted he said he was blacklisting their entire COUNTRY and would
tell everyone who was the offending operator. He actually did it a few
times, but I'm not sure how effective it was hi hi.
73 de Tom, WW5L/C91TL
PS: All C91TL cards received direct so far have been answered..
Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
It was frustrating and sad to listen to the KH8SI and 4O3T pileups
this weekend (mostly SSB).
When the DX station says, "The station with 7 in the call, ending in
Germany" why do unrelated calls from all over the country continue to
call? When the DX station comes back to a full callsign, why does the
pileup size diminish only by half, rather than "all but one"? It
makes it impossible for a better DXer to find the station being worked
because so many others are still calling.
The rate of these DX stations is being hindered by out-of-turn
callers. When the rate is hindered, fewer people can work the DX
station. Especially limited-time operations like KH8SI.
It made me sad to be a DXer this weekend. My QSO with KH8SI on 17
meters took THREE go-arounds because they could not get my call
(presumably because of all the people still calling). That's TWO MORE
possible QSOs that were wasted by the out-of-turn callers.
OUT-OF-TURN CALLERS ARE SETTING A BAD EXAMPLE, RUINING IT FOR
THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELSE!
73 - Jim AD1C
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