[SOC] Can someone answer this for me?

[Dan W. Dooley]

Hi Rob.  Maybe that explains part of it.  LOL

I think it would be preferable to ASSUME that he's operating split unless
told otherwise.  Chances are a heck of a lot higher that he is than that he
isn't.

If a solitary DX station is calling CQ, then he probably is operating
simplex.  A DXpedition will not (except for perhaps the very first call of
his session) be calling "CQ".  Chances that he's operating simplex are slim,
methinks.


Dan W. Dooley  WB5TKA  Bedford, Texas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Matherly" <kc0bom@arrl.net>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Can someone answer this for me?


> The few times I've accidentaly done it are when I don't know the guy's
> working split.  What I normally do is listen for a while to see if the
> guy is operataing simplex (i.e., I can hear the guy he's working).  But
> if he's just calling cq over and over I give him a shot on the freq he's
> tranmitting on.  Obviously I'm not going to interfere with anything
> because nobody's wokring him anyway :^)
>