[Elecraft] WA3WSJ: DX & Pileups

[Mike Rioux]

I try to be as polite as possible to offenders in
the pile ups. I just don't log them.
If the pile up gets too out of hand, I QRX and get
a beer!

 
Mike, W1USN K2 #1964, K1 #1964 First Licensed in
1964
Boxford, MA USA
w1usn at rioux.org
WN1DAE, WN1TPE, WA1TPE, NW1J, VE1/WA1TPE,
DL/WA1TPE, G0/NW1J, EA7/NW1J, P4/NW1J, P4/W1USN,
V31RN, 8P9CI, VP2ERN, V26NR, FS/W1USN, PJ8/W1USN,
J75RN, J3/W1USN, V44/W1USN

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Althoff [mailto:althoff at verizon.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:08 PM
> To: PolarBearQRP at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net; njqrp at njqrp.org
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] WA3WSJ: DX & Pileups
> 
> Back in the 70's there was listening to a
pileeup run by a 
> famous VK (or it
> MIGHT have been a famous ZL) who was standing by
for East 
> coast US stations
> on 20M SSB from a little island in the Pacific.
> 
> A W6 kept calling and calling.   The VK asked
"Are you on the 
> East coast" to
> which the response was "You're 59 in
California".
> The VK said "Thank you.  You are in the log.
QRZ East coast 
> only.  And if
> anyone else wants to be in my log with a DO NOT
QSL entry 
> next to their
> callsign feel free to call me from anywhere
other than the 
> East coast of the
> US.
> 
> The pileup became VERY well behaved after that.
> 
> Haven't heard him do that in a long time and I
don't know if 
> that W6 ever
> was really blacklisted but when a DX station
maintains 
> discipline...all
> benefit.
> 
> Tom K2TA