At 14:17 10/23/2011, Elmar PD3EM wrote:
A lot of chances to work a DX or DX-pedition are ruined by "hams"
that don't listen before they TX.
Here's a mail I sent to my local club and NCDXC a few days after Pacificon:
The reminder to LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN that I was given at Pacificon
worked great for me this AM.
T32C was on 40m SSB and had a pretty good pileup. 40m does not work
well for me, I think it is a feed-line
issue because my screwdriver tunes beautifully on all bands but
40m. Anyway, hearing the pileup made me
think my best strategy was to listen, and I started to hear him
complaining about his QSOs getting QRMed
by other deserving calling and calling. Then he said, "Give me a
second, I am going to check around". He
had been working simplex and I took this as a clue he was planning to
start working split. So I set my radio
to split and VFO A to his old frequency, and the mouse cross hairs (I
run a flex3K) to VFO B. When he came
back he said "I am going to start working split, QSX 7180" and in 2-3
seconds I clicked on 7180 and hit the
foot pedal, he came back as I was the only one that fast and I got
him first call (can't use my amp on 40m,
the SWR is too high). It was a delight and a triumph for
LISTENING. Thank you all.....
--
Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959
All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html
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