[Dx-qsl] P5/4L4FN's next station

[Alan C. Zack]

There was so much bad behavior on the part of the pile ups I'm
surprised he put up with all of it.  Some people were so deaf or so
stupid, rude and selfish, that they keep calling no matter what he was
asking for.  Things would have gone much faster and more people would
have made it in the log if they just followed his instructions and let
him work the station he called the first time.  Some times he let
himself get bullied by the big guns, and things just got worse.  He
only had a short time to work on the days he had available and some
people thought the more they yelled their call sign the better for
them.  Same thing happened today towards the end of the the ARRL DX
test.  ZK1CG was on 10 meters being called by a small mob, one guy
kept giving his last two IM (must mean I'm a Moron) even after ZK1CG
came back to someone else and was trying to get his report.  This
clown just kept calling, and calling, and calling over the top of
ZK1CG and everyone else trying to give their reports, resulting in
many more back and forth exchanges than normal.  Several people asked
him to behave, his reply was to mind their own business.  When he
QRM's the DX it IS everyone's business.  I just went away and worked
some more JA's.  One new mult wasn't worth the hassle.

kss@juno.com wrote:
> 
> I've rec'd many, shall we say, less than complimentary opinions about
> this operation.  Yes, I worked him ONCE.  But I heard many stations get
> congratulated for SEVERAL bands/mode QSO's.  I'm in the midwest so the
> propagation here was much the same as the East coast mostly.  It took me
> 3 weeks of listening every night to finally get ONE shot, and luckily, I
> got him then as the first call of the evening pileup. Laying in wait paid
> off... THIS time!!
> 
> I hope another P5 comes up sometime soon, but Ed did whatever he could to
> be there for us.  I think the 15K QSO's prove that.
> 
> Good luck to us all..
> 73
> Ken
> WA8JOC
> 
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 01:00:46 -0500 kss@juno.com writes:
> > Well...does he know where's he's going for the next post???...just
> > curious...
> >
> > He did a GREAT job from P5, and I'm sure that trait will follow.
> >
> > 73
> > Ken
> > WA8JOC

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