Fw: [PPRAANet] FYBO for first timers 2/2/2

[Doug Moloney]

Why don't you just  calm down Wes.  Live and let live.

Doug W�MHP

P.S.  Does this mean you won't be contesting on FD?


----- Original Message -----
From: Wes Wilson <wlw@prodigy.net>
To: PPRAA <ppraanet@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:24 AM
Subject: RE: [PPRAANet] FYBO for first timers 2/2/2


> Paul --
>
> I'm no newcomer to CW, it's been my primary HF mode since my novice days
in
> 1956-7 -- however I absolutely despise contests (everybody's 599 -- even
if
> they're 345 -- {so what's the point???}).  Seems like an exercise in
> futility to work as many liars in as many SPCs in as short a time as
> possible.
>
> I constantly hear contesters bragging about how they're "the best
operators
> in the world," when in fact, most contesters exhibit extremely poor
> operating practice -- in fact, blatantly illegal.  They almost never allow
> the station they're working to sign clear at the end of their report
> (violation of Part 97.119(a) "Each amateur station . . . must transmit its
> assigned call sign on its transmitting channel at the END of each
> transmission . . ."  And they may try for a long time on a frequency
giving
> just suffix or, in CW, just first letter of suffix -- never make contact
and
> never fully ID on that frequency before they QSY.  Then we can talk about
> the way the contesters treat non-contesting stations on the bands --
paying
> no attention to not QRMing the non-contesting stations -- boy if there is
> contact to be made 1/2 Kc off a non-contesting station -- they don't care.
> Hey, there's a contest on -- the rule book goes out the window!  CQ CQ CQ
> TEST.  I've had so many QSOs wiped out by contesters that the minute I
hear
> a contest in progress on HF I turn my rig off and pursue one of my other
> hobbies.  I guess my point is that contesters are their own worst
enemies --
> and they somehow seem to think everybody should want to be a wonderful
> contester like them!
>
> Most contesters seem to have this incredibly stuck up attitude that every
> ham should have been born a "know it all" like them (contest skills are,
> after all, developed in the womb -- by osmosis).  As I read your excellent
> tutorial (seriously) on all the intricacies of working FYBO, I tried to
put
> myself in the place of a newer ham reading the same information.  From
that
> perspective, I was left with but one important question.
>
> What is FYBO??????
>
> :-}
>
> Sincerely hope you have a good time with the event -- don't plan on
hearing
> me.
>
> 73  Wes KOHBZ
>
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