So sad that we see this thread come up with every major top-ten DXpedition.
I *am* in favour of blacklisting but only for a day. "WZ4ZZZ you've
been calling out of turn for 20 minutes now, tail-ending and covering
up the guys I'm trying to work. You're not going in the log today.
Try back tomorrow when I'm calling for 4's; OK" that kind of thing.
To unabashedly paraphrase Martti Laine's analogy, DXing is a
performance of sorts, and both the players on the stage (the DX) and
the audience (us) have a role to play if the performance is to be a
success. I'm sure the DXers who spend thousands or tens of thousands
or in some cases hundreds-of-thousands to give The Deserving (!!!) a
new one don't go into their trips with the objective to only work a
few thousand and that's it -- I'd bet they want the highest Q rates
and give out the most "new ones" as they can. It behooves them to
take along a lot of serious experienced operators, and for the
newbies out there with them, put them on the least-demanding shifts
at first until they prove their mettle - noth thrust them onto 40 CW
or 20 SSB on a Friday night. Small operations to ultra-rare locations
(i.e. not holiday "let's-have-some-fun-on-the-air" operations) are
doing themselves no favours by taking along large numbers of
inexperienced operators for the reasons stated earlier in this thread.
In other words, the question posed by the subject line of this thread
of "How do we make better DXers" is answered by "By the organizers of
major DXpeditions putting the best operators they can find behind the
mic or key or keyboard when it counts, setting rules and keeping to
those rules no matter how surly the pile becomes." The carrot is the
QSL card, but the stick should be a NIL, and I'm afraid far too few
operators are willing to use the stick once in a while. A little
public shaming of the WORST offenders, at JUST the right point can
sometimes be the tonic needed, I feel.
Also, I suspect those who subscribe to and participate in these
forums are not the problem-children anyway.
It's the rogues who don't give a hoot what anybody else thinks who
ruins it for everybody. The operators who see "me me me me me me"
above everything else; the guys who WILL work DXpeditions 10 times on
one band-mode just "cuz they can," etc. These varlets just don't
listen to anybody so all the words written here, sadly, will probably
have no effect.
----- Original Message -----
To: <dx-chat@njdxa.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] How do we make better DXers?
The DX just has to be strict about who gets to get through. The
pileup should be held up until WK7 gets to get through, or the DX says
"the whiskey kilo seven please" and is met with silence. Yeah, QSO
rate may plummet, but that's just what has to happen to keep the
pileup in line.
Cheers,
Peter,
W2IRT
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