Good Day All, This morning as I was monitoring the assembled multitude attempting to contact T30RH, it really struck me as to how folks like Jacek must have the patience of Job to endure what they do in the mounting of such an effort...
As if the logistics of merely GETTING to some far-flung island country aren't taxing enough, one must then endure the agony of attempting to extricate callsigns in the midst of out-of-turn callers and seemingly "deaf" Hams who continually do little more than sending their callsign over and over and over again. This morning was a classic in that regard: poor Jacek REPEATEDLY sent the broken call of a "K2" station he'd heard, appealing for all others to stand by---but for all his pleas, he was incessantly deluged by no less than two other Stateside amateurs (and I use the term amateur both figuratively, AND literally) who continued honking away with their calls right on top the 2-lander... ...One of these miscreants wasn't even in the second call district---and the other was an often-heard DX'er on 160-meters who SHOULD know better. As has so often been said before, good DX operating practice---to say nothing of good manners!---on this side of the pile-up make it imperative that one must listen, LISTEN, and then L-I-S-T-E-N some more. Sadly, that reality has somehow become lost on the current generation of "DX'ers" on what used to be known as "The Gentleman's Band". I hope Jacek & company are maintaining a "black log" that contains the callsigns of Hams who repeatedly display such loutish & disruptive behaviour: any QSL cards received from same should be immediately and deservedly placed into the proverbial round file, IMHO. ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
