RE: [DX-CHAT] Question

[Ragnar Otterstad]

-----Here is a hypothetical situation and a question.  I am on a dxpedition to a top 10 entity and lets say I'm operating on 20 meters.  I'm transmitting at 14.195 and listening 200 to 220.  I tune down to my transmit frequency and hear all kinds of intentional QRM.  It's so bad that I know the stations I am trying to work are having a bad time hearing me.  What would happen if I waited a few minutes then announced that I am no longer working split, please call between 14.200 and 14.220 and I will work you on your transmit frequency?    My experience is limited to JW, where the JA pileups can be almost frightening ! The bad English adds to the problem so working Ja phone pile-ups is really a challenge. What I found to work in a seemingly hopeless situation was frequency hopping.   I would say f ex  QSX  245. When that frequency become saturated I would say QSX 235. Not everybody is listening so I would get a periode when callsigns can be made out. When the new frequency is hopeless I would find a new free one  and say QSX  whatever that was.  By doing this I managed to keep the phone pileups managable without spreading out all over a large bandsegment.   The same can be done on CW of course, but morse is easier to copy with narrow filters and different pitches. But I had to use this approach some years ago on 30 meters. I guess it was the first time somebody did a real effort to work 30 meters from Svalbard and there was a  " wall-to-wall" pile-up . By using the QSX-technique described above only those who listened properly would know where to transmit ! I believe there is a moral in there !!!  hi     73   " RAG "  Ragnar Otterstad   LA5HE JW5HE OZ8RO Located in Telemark - Home of skiing.    For more information about Telemark take a look at :  www.visittelemark.com     for more details.