[SADXA] VK0EK on 7.016: QRM Analysis

[Jim W]

;-)

On 3/29/2016 2:37 PM, W7EXG (Bill) wrote:
> Great Analysis Jim..
>
> I thought I had HEARD it all (No Pun Intended - of course).  BUT WAIT.. ...
> there's even better DX FUN!!
>
> I have also observed a weak station [on VK0EK freq], matching VE0EK
> fist/speed/and rapid 599, but working the station pile-ups down frequency.
> You may have heard this? They give the pile-up station a call, a report, and
> then tu. It fools many, based on the 1000s calling after the bogus tu. The
> scam becomes clear, when one hears two such stations operating on or near
> the same freq. But which one is real? I was able to sort it out with Beam
> headings. Amazing how many stations I observed being worked,  by the bogus
> station, with signal peaking at about 80 deg.  Of course, the DXA will not
> show that fooled pile-up stations being logged.
>
> Compared to 30m and 20m CW, 40m CW seemed the worst?
>
> I think the incorrect freq shift "guidance" is to helpfully direct their TX
> out of the pile-up.
>
> Happy DXing!!
>
> 73s,
>
> Bill W7EXG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SADXA [mailto:sadxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim W
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 10:58 AM
> To: sadxa at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SADXA] VK0EK on 7.016: QRM Analysis
>
> Well, obviously it's Ted's fault.  :-)
>
> On 3/29/2016 8:25 AM, drdowning wrote:
>> 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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