[SixClub] 4U1WB on the air yesterday

[Jerry Gault]

Hope many of had the opportunity to work that nice band opening last
evening. On 50.150 station 4U1WB (World Bank) was on the air, a very large
pileup started as would be expected. One station lucky enough to make
contact with a very powerful signal kept calling for the QSL route on top of
many stations trying to make contact. Maybe this station thought they made a
foreign contact and didn't realize that it was really in DC at the World
Bank or maybe they didn't realize that their communication with 4U1WB had
already ended and 4U1WB  were talking with other stations, or maybe they
were just rude. I don't know, but this obviously powerful station knocked my
100 watts on a PAR omni out of the ring along with others that just gave up
and went after other stations elsewhere. This asking for a qsl route went on
for 5 minutes or so. A simple search on QRZ for the call sign has the QSL
route. Lesson I learned from this was if you need further information ask
for it when you have the operators attention and not after you confirm the
contact, all this operator did was interfere with others.

73
Jerry