Re: [DX-CHAT] #3 VU4 Report

[N7MAL]

Well Charles I suggest you pack your bags and head back to the States and take up butterfly collecting. Yesterday when I was working the YV0 he clearly came back to me,,, "'N7MAL 5NN",,,yet on the sub rcvr I heard at least 10 guys either still calling or whatever. When I worked VU4 on 40 CW it was a zoo.  Easily 50% of the guys calling couldn't hear the VU4's. This is 2006 and 90% of the people in pile-ups have no business being there. They are there because they saw a packet spot.  They think the contact should be spoon fed to them, just like the packet spot. Yet somehow eventually they get though. It is not restricted to any one particular country, although from here in AZ it sure seems like USA has the most lids, hands down. The BØZØ's and MØRØN's are here to stay, your whining/preaching is not going to change anything. It's up to you to make the best of it, or the worst of it. It's obvious you've decided to make the worst of it. Nobody wants to hear how poorly you are doing and how frustrated you are. 99% of DXpeditions brag about how well they did. So far you've made a couple of postings of whining/excuses. You went there to operate voluntarily, you know very well what it would be like. If you didn't then please re-read the first sentence. 73     MAL       N7MAL BULLHEAD CITY, AZ http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm http://geocities.com/n7mal/ Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Harpole To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:16 Subject: [DX-CHAT] #3 VU4 Report Some VU4 thughts: - The 2 factors that slow me down are       1. callers not giving their whole WHOLE calls the first time and every time.  The fact that I may get only a couple of letters and call those letters out, does not mean that I want callers to just give a few letters of their WHOLE calls.   Giving partial calls incoming DOUBLES my time taken for that one caller.       2.  callers calling out of turn (when I am calling by numbers) or calling when it is VERY CLEAR that I am not responding to them.  For the latter example, I ask for "AN only" and I get AN calling along with a WZ or a CPA or also a ZPS or whatever..... slows me down and hurts everyone. And, as usual, folks from the country shaped like a tall boot seem to be those doing these things the most.... Nevertheless, I would not be anywhere else nor doing anything else.... real fun.... 73 Charles Harpole  VUAN/VU3CHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5/322 - Release Date: 4/22/2006