"I guess the only solution is to ignore if you can and steal their pleasure."
If we could get every single ham who wanted to work the DX to have infinite patience and totally ignore the jammers, they'll go away. The DX will always hear everyone in a split pile, and there will always be a good fraction of the pileup that can hear the DX and not the jammer just like I could on 40m. If no one sends "UP" or "LID" or the "FU" I've heard a few times, then the jammer is just going to hear the DX soldier on in the face of jamming, apparently unhurt. It won't cure the problem (some jammers are very persistent) but it will help if they generally think they're too weak to be heard. "I can't explain why things have gotten so much worse lately, unless the general downturn in society in general." I don't know either but there is something I've observed. Some DX operations get almost NO jamming, some are jammed constantly. I don't think it has much to do with the loudness or rarity of the expedition. That smacks of a deeper story than "people are jerks" I think some jamming is probably specifically targeted at certain individuals or DX groups for personal reasons. 5L2MS has had fierce pileups but I haven't heard much intentional transmission on their TX frequency, have you? They're mind-bendingly loud in NA too on some bands...in Western Africa and in great demand, and yet, I heard a fair bit of intentional jamming on C52C on 40 and now this report of the same on 30. What's the difference? Maybe I'm wrong, maybe 5L2MS is getting jammed just as much, but I haven't noticed that if it's true. Dan Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
