Thats why God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth - so we can listen twice as
much as we talk.......
Tom
GM4FDM
Larry Van Horn wrote:
As a little pistol, who works some good DX from time to time, I find
the biggest problem is that those who appear to act like idiots when
DX appears, simply aren't "listening." They have a microphone in their
hands that they paid for and they plan on using it by God, and the
rest of us be damned. It is their goal to be one of the early ones to
claim victory over the rest of us.
My motto has always been listen-listen-listen and it gives me a major
edge over the mob. And I have no fear giving out my secret because
most don't care. They want the hammer down regardless.
I find it pretty sick to hear someone say thanks for the second or
third contact with this mode and band, and I am still trying to work
them the first time ever. Funny thing is it seems to be the same
pinheads over and over. And no one nationality has a monopoly on this
bad behavior. Their is just a group who are lewd, crude and socially
unacceptable. It is a fact of life we have to deal with. I have
learned where the tuning knob is and when it gets to bad, the on/off
button is.
The best part of it all, I hear their callsigns and I can determine
first hand who the DX idiot are. They are the ones I won't have a qso
with or hand out a contest contact. I just love it all when a plan
comes together.
At birth, you were given two ears and one mouth. What does that say
you should do more of. I am looking foward to Descheo and I am sure
more calls will make my personal hall of shame.
73
Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
Brasstown, NC USA
Monitoring Times magazine
Assistant/Review Editor
----- Original Message ----- From: <f5...@free.fr>
To: <dx-chat@njdxa.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Descheo Island
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 :-)
----- Mail Original -----
De: "ragnar otterstad" <la...@yahoo.no>
À: w8tahra...@gmail.com, dx-chat@njdxa.org, jdav...@mindspring.com,
mausop...@btinternet.com
Envoyé: Lundi 26 Janvier 2009 18:57:41 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin /
Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
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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