I was taught to listen first, then transmit. Hard to listen with the AF gain
all the way down. Once one is established on a frequency, turn it down, if you
QSY, listen again.
ve3bdr
From: Ralph Mowery
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:29 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY and common courtesy
Let me get this right. You want a station to ask if the frequency is in use.
That is understandable except he will be on RTTY and you are on another sound
card mode. Many times stations do not even have the audio running now. They
are just looking at a digital display and clicking on the signals. If it does
not look like a rtty signal then it is ignored.
I don't do contest either except for some at field day and some vhf and above
contest.
- Original Message
From: KB3FXI
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, July 18, 2010 12:57:03 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: RTTY and common courtesy
I agree. And while I have little or no interest in contesting, I can appreciate
it as being a big part of amateur radio and does have value in practice and
experience in understanding exchanges and band conditions/propagation. And for
a
great many people, it's just plain old fun.
But, there's really no excuse for ops to just pop on a frequency that is in
use.
What the 3 ops did on the net I was participating in last night was really
inexcusable.
I helped with a special event station yesterday and on ever qsy I first
listened
and put out 3 calls asking if the freq was in use. This procedure took about 1
minute of my time and I was assured that I was not interfering with a qso in
progress.
It's just common sense and common courtesy.
-Dave, KB3FXI
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