On 4/3/07, A.R.S. - W5AMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Get a video camera and video/audio your rx for 30 minutes with you in the room and get it recorded Don! There are some 4 landers on 3725 (W5RED is one of them) that do the same thing. Next time I ask if the freq. is in use after listening for 20 minutes and he comes on and says "Ohhhh YES, it is", I'm going to do just that, send it to Riley H. If we don't start to do something about it, there is no need us griping about them either.
I wondered who that was. I don't hear them so well up here most nights, but they've come in before when I was in QSO and talked right over us, plenty loud. The remarks they've made lead me to believe they know full well what they are doing. The 'dead air' scenario Don describes has happened to me also. As a result, I no longer ask if the frequency is in use if I've been listening for an extended period and heard nothing. If it's only a few minutes, different story, but asking seems to be an invitation for them to claim the frequency, even if they aren't using it. It's also a good reason to move around a bit, to keep folks from developing ownership issues. The other scenario is a fellow who calls what appears to be every callsign he knows, asking if they are on the frequency. Maybe he's reading off QRZ or from an old callbook. I think it's his attempt to get 'their' frequency and keep it until the others show up. The only times they succeed is when no one responds to my CQ. Some 'irregular' regular activity would go a long ways at keeping folks accustomed to our presence on the bands. By that I mean, being on regularly, but not following a set pattern of frequency and so on. I think this is what has helped draw so many folks to AM down below 3800. ~ Todd KA1KAQ ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
