I am not sure the lack of enough understanding of English is the main factor.
It is a logical fact to DO NOT shout your callsign (or even just your suffix)
when a QSO is already in progress or when another suffix is asked. It is a
nonsense and an egocentric behavior. I think the international alphabet is
clear enough to avoid these kind of confusions by anyone from any country. I
would not call if I hear from the DX "Alpha Sierra, go ahead", even if my name
is ending by "AS"... Another part of the problem could be a culture difference
(and the latin culture might have these significative differences: << me and
what peoples would think about me and about my "power", first... >> (...let's
worry about the others later).
And to reply to another comment, this "problem" has nothing to do with this
particular coming KP5 operation but is simply redundant with most of the rare
DXpeditions.
73 de Nicolas F5FRM (a french/spanish latin one :-)
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De: "ragnar otterstad" <la...@yahoo.no>
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Envoyé: Lundi 26 Janvier 2009 18:57:41 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne /
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Objet: [DX-CHAT] Descheo Island
>
> I can see right now what's going to happen when they
> work Europe:
>
> When the operator says quite clearly for the fifth time
> "Golf Nine Alpha Alpha Alpha five and nine", all
> the Italians will keep shouting their last two for ten
> minutes solid on the G9's frequency, overmodulating
> their 3kW amplifiers and without pausing for
> breath......even if they are in the log twelve times
> already.
Unfortunately, I think you are right. Part of the problem is lack of proper
understanding of English, which applies to all the latin countries, where films
are dubbed. Up here, we have subtitles, so people get language lessons without
even knowing it !!
> >
> These guys are all pretty good operators and you'll
> have propagation akin to a telephone line on most bands
> nearly 24 hours per day from where you live. Don't
> bother takin the time off work during the first week when
> the big guns will slug it out toe to toe, but you'll
> make it in the log easily enough during the second week.
> If you wait till the band's closed to Italy,
> anyway....."Whiskey eight Tango Alpha Hotel five and
> nine".."ITALY KILO ITALY KILO ITALY KILO ITALY
> KILO ITALY KILO....."
>
> If you're like me you concentrate on CW where there are
> fewer muppets....
There are some rotten apples even on CW these days , I am sorry to say !This
applies in particular to some Eastern -Europeans countries and Balkan.
If they work split, which I am sure they will, things get easier when you have
experienced operators at the DX-end. F ex I rarely have to make more that 2-3
calls to get a qso when f ex DL3DXX, G3SXW and others like them
are at the DX-end- Even when the signals are marginal, which they often are up
here in the North !
73 rag LA5HE
>
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