[DX] 3B7SP

Thu Jun 14 10:15:23 EDT 2007

Art et al:

   Seldom reply to exchanges like below - but Art raises good questions.
I don't know where this FREQ POLICE/SWAT mentality started but IMHO it is
out of control and quite frankly something needs to be done about it. 
Aside from the appointed pilot trying to keep the DX tx freq clear do we
really need the self appointed (always seems there's more than one or
two) to keep tx UP UP etc on top of the DX station? You realize what this
does? It either delays an exchange for a QSO in progress or busts or
denies whomever their hard earned QSO.  Even worse:  Who are these people
(and some of us out there know who they may be) who always show up on top
of the DX station and deliberately interfere and QRM them?  Their tactics
include steady key down, use of rtty or a digital mode or some variant or
else in morse send derogatory comments re amateurs or the most blatant
use of vulgarity and obscenities - and who'se the guy on SSB who groans
over and over like a wounded cow (i'm being nice today)? They hurt all of
us trying to make a QSO and sometimes cause the DX/dxped station to QRT
or QSY.  They give all we amateurs a bad name and hurt us all by denying
the opportunity for that coveted QSO.   The strong point of our hobby is
that we have been able to use self discipline for the good of all. Its
not only common sense guys, its good manners.  If you know who these
offenders are, we need to find a way to publicly identify them and put
the authorities on to them.   If we don't, what kind of operating
practices or on air discipline do you think the newcomers are going to
use - if they dont get fed up and decide to stay off the air?  GL & 73 Al
W3AWU 

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:26:31 -0400 Art Searle W2NRA <w2nra at optonline.net>
writes:
> All of the responses, on this reflector and privately, to my 
> confession were positive and encouraging.  Thank you guys, for your
understanding.
> 
> Oh and one more funny note.  There is apparently a new band police 
> SWAT team and there assignment is to go after continuous callers who
keep 
> calling after the DX comes back to a specific station.  They will send
on 
> the DX's frequency "DO NOT TX WHEN IT IS NO YOU."  Well when I got
QRM'd 
> 3B7SP sent "W2NRA only".  I tried to reestablish contact by sending
"3B7SP de 
> W2NRA" and my report.  Well the police sent  "W2NRA.....DO NOT TX WHEN
IT 
> IS NO YOU".  I stand falsely accused.  I call that police brutality.  
> Where's the ACLU (Amateur Civil Liberties Union)?
> 
> Ok, now I'm stepping up on to the soap box, so get ready to hit the 
> delete button:
> Actually I don't understand the continuous calling (or the band 
> police for that matter).  Why do they do it?  It doesn't work.  If
you're 
> continuously calling you don't know where the DX is listening (and you
cannot 
> rely on spots), so you're not properly planning where to put your
signal.  I 
> don't continuous call.  I have a modest station.  My small and very old
5 
> band beam is only up 33 feet and yet I've worked everything I hear. 
Here 
> are some examples:  In a little over a year I've worked 6 new countries
> including the 1st KH8SI and the recent BS7H (both tough to do from 
> the East coast).  I now only have 7 left.  Ok, maybe only 6, if
Palestine 
> completes deleting itself.  This is not much of an accomplishment for
as long 
> as I've been a ham.  But a lot of ham friends with much better stations
have 
> missed many of these recent Dxpeditions and blamed it on the
DXpeditions.  
> I know most of us Dxers don't continuous call.  But the number that do 
> seems to be on the rise.  I've also heard many a familiar callsigns
doing it.  
> And that surprises and disappoints me.  I know; I'm preaching to the
choir.
> 
> 73 Art W2NRA
> "Keep to the code!"
> w2nra.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Searle W2NRA
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007
> 
> My apologies for transmitting on 3B7SP's frequency this morning on 
> 20 RTTY.
> It was unintentional and I should have been more careful.  I offer 
> the
> following, not as an excuse, but merely an explanation. 
> 
> I'm using a new rig and I carefully set it up to call 3B7SP split.  
> When
> tuning around my calling frequency I unintentionally hit the sync 
> VFO button
> on the remote tuning pod.  When I saw the up up up by the police 
> after each
> of my transmission I knew it wasn't me because I was careful.  
> Imagine my
> embarrassment when I realized that it was me.
> 
> Again, I'm sorry and I wish I could promise that it won't happen 
> again.  But
> I've made that promise in the past and have never been able to keep 
> it.  I
> just must be a bad person so I'll go and hang my head.
> 
> BTW in the name of justice, when I finally did get through I was 
> QRM'd out
> of the contact and had to keep trying until I got through again.
> 
> 73 Art W2NRA
> "Keep to the code!"
> w2nra.com
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      ALFRED CAMMARATA
                  W3AWU