I would have to respectfully disagree with Norm's comment that "years
ago intentional QRM was almost unheard of."
It may not have been at the level that you seen nowadays, but it's
always been there.
I can still recall one evening in college (about 30 years ago...
*sigh*), when a bunch of us were operating K3CR on 20 phone, when a
small pile-up developed (don't ask me why, we weren't a "special
event," just a college club station, and a pretty active one at the
time to boot). 5 minutes or so into the pileup, we got hit with
carriers and various rude comments. Then someone else jumped on and
informed the jammers that he'd called the local FCC monitoring
station... and someone else taunted him back that the FCC wasn't going
to do anything... and so on. As I remember, we eventually just gave
up and QSY'd.
I've had carriers and other QRM wipe either me or my intended QSO out
in contests and DX chasing situations going as far back. Again, maybe
not as often as you can see nowadays, but it happens.
Why is it more prevalent today? For one thing, IMHO, sheer numbers.
We have more hams today than we did 30 years ago, and as a result,
while the percentage of lids has (hopefully) remained small, the
actual number has risen. And when it takes only 1 or 2 ding dongs to
create havoc...
We also as a society seem to have grown more tolerant over the years
of rude and obnoxious behavior. There are many reasons for that, too
many to list here. Suffice, when rude behavior is tolerated in other
parts of society, it gets reflected on the bands too.
And in some situations, the testosterone (or equivalent) takes over.
Sometimes, some of those "win at any and all costs & take no
prisoners" hams will do anything to make sure that THEY make the
contact, and will sometimes prevent YOU from doing so -- so that they
can claim "I WON" and, by default, you lost. It's against the true
spirit that amateur radio once had and still aspires too... but it
happens all too often.
73, ron wn3vaw
From: Norm Gertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri Apr 21 07:45:47 CDT 2006
To: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 'WC7N' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
'DX-CHAT' <dx-chat@njdxa.org>
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] [dx-CHAT] Gentlemen HAM'S
My observations through the years is that the "bad apples" who
generate QRM and engage in outrageous behaviour on the air are also
comporting themselves in the same manner in their everyday lives. I
disagree with one of the writers who alleged that most of the
violators are old timers, extra class etc. Years ago intentional QRM
was almost unheard of and operators did not have the luxury of split
nor a VFO. You were limited to a handful of crystals. Perhaps newer
is not always better in spite of the sophisticated equipment we now
have. If you have a poor operator at the helm then you expect low
grade performance.
73 Norm K1AA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WC7N'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'DX-CHAT'" <dx-chat@njdxa.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] [dx-CHAT] Gentlemen HAM'S
Short of someone's life or limb being in danger, there is no excuse
for transmitting on a DX station's frequency.
Its hard to look someone in the eyes and firmly say "what you're doing
is wrong, and here's why". At least your friend had you to tell him;
for all too many ops, there's no one.
We reap what we sow...
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of WC7N Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 20:11 PM To: DX-CHAT
Subject: [DX-CHAT] [dx-CHAT] Gentlemen HAM'S
Today I have been setting here in the Ham Shack, reading a book,
because I couldn't hear any of the DX but did check frequencies.
(Easy to do whey you
are retired and an old F...) I was really amazed at the language I
was hearing and first put it on the dumbing down of the ham radio
license requirements but then remembered recently I was visiting a
friend who has been a ham for probably 12-15 years, he was calling a
dx station on CW and some body came up on freq and he went critical
with the UP UP UP FU FU FU etc. I asked "what are you doing." His
answer "I work hard all day and when I come home and have time to ham
I don't have to put up with that s..."
Well maybe that is the problem now, not the dumbing down of the
license but working hard to support a family, taking too much sh..
from the boss and just no patience when you get home.
Rod WC7N
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