Re: [Elecraft] Intentional QRM and operating practices.

2017-10-30 Thread Michael Walker
Hi Ted I had a bunch of guys call me yesterday who were zero point Canadian stations, most I worked. I just work them and dupes as it is easier just to log them rather than explain why you don't want to work them. However, the band was very crowded and very loud all weekend. Sometimes it is imp

[Elecraft] Intentional QRM and operating practices.

2017-10-30 Thread j...@kk9a.com
If "WZNXXX was in the US and you were difficult to hear he probably did not want to spend a lot of time trying to decipher your callsign just to make a zero point QSO. John KK9A Dauer, Edward edauer wrote Sun Oct 29 22:18:32 EDT 2017 The one near- SSB QSO I had yesterday, with a North American s

[Elecraft] Intentional QRM and operating practices.

2017-10-29 Thread Dauer, Edward
I too have been 99.5% CW for many years. Two exceptions in this millennium were SSB skeds with Fred Cady, neither of which worked. I know that anecdotes aren’t data, but I will share this one anyway. Yesterday, having completed a K2 with the SSB option, I went on the air to see what people wo