[SADXA] VK0EK on 7.016: QRM Analysis

[drdowning]

Good description of chaos. 

It's a HUUGE event that will start a political revolution for a broad diversity of fundamental hams. 

Whose behind this mess? Hillary? Donald? Bernie? Or Ted? 

Ted Downing
www.TedDowning.com


> On Mar 28, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Jim W <wysocki1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a pretty good copy on VK0EK with my Yagi, pointed long path on 40 CW.  The station is not strong but there is little QSB.  There is too much QRM, deliberate and otherwise, to get consistent copy and to join the pileup.  So instead of fighting the morons, I've been listening to them for my amusement.  It seems to me that the frequency cops are even dumber than those who don't know how to use the [split] controls in their transceivers.  Instead of shutting up the frequency cops are responding to everyone, no matter how inadvertent the calling.  Generally the frequency cops have bad manners and even worse fists.
> 
> At the moment the frequency cops are debating on the DXpedition's transmit frequency whether the callers should go up or down. (Up! No, Down!, No UP!, etc.) Then there are the usual name callers and tuner uppers and unidentified CQers.  Of course the sociopaths who are deliberately taunting and sending random messages are back.  But there's a new QRM tactic developing tonight.
> 
> Some of the clueless ones who are calling on VK0EK's transmit frequency are being answered by somebody who I'll call a "frequency sweeper".  He's running lower power and giving the usual DXpedition "call and signal report" message: some of the dummies are responding to it, giving their exchange, and leaving the frequency.  This sweeps the frequency clear of some of the lids, but the Slim is still clogging the frequency and I can't reliably hear the Heard Island crew.  This tactic is a subtle but passive-aggressive way of causing even more QRM.  Still it's an interesting evening's radiosport.
> 
> 73,  Jim  W9FI
> 
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