[OKDXA] K1N

[John Geiger]

I worked them on 17CW also around 1840Z, very easy.  Took less than 5
minutes. I found the station they were working, moved up 100hz and dropped
in my call!

However 15m RTTY and 10SSB are a different story.  They had a good signal
on 15m RTTY today but it was next to impossible to find who they were
working, since many other stations continued to call the entire time they
were sending or trying to work someone else.  For example, they came back
to W4PGM and I turned across the 20khz listening range, and it was almost
wall to wall signals when they came back to a specific station.  I don't
understand this behavior.  Do these other stations think they are going to
ignore W4PGM and work them instead?  Can they not hear the DX and just
think if they call and call the DX might pop out of the noise with their
callsign, or might just put them in the log anyways?

10SSB isn't much better.  I have 6Y5NR/KP1 confirmed on 15 CW from 1985 so
I am not really trying for any QSO on 15m, just one on RTTY and the band
doesn't matter.  Since I am in the log for a 20m SSB QSO, I won't even try
on 15m SSB, but I would like a RTTY QSO and a few new band slots, like 10
meters.

I certainly hope that this ignorant behavior isn't the current state of
DXing, but I am afraid maybe it is.  At least CW seems a little more sane.

73 John AF5CC

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:45 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Just got one more; 17m CW.
>
> 100W to a Force 12 Sigma V mounted 3 feet off the ground.
>
> Now looking on 10m SSB and 12m.
>
> Mac, K2GKK
>
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