Well I agree, but! The operator on the DX end is the pack leader. If he permits the bad behavior, then it multiplies. If you're running a pile, and ask for 1s don't take others. If you ask for AD1C, don't take others. If tht doesn't have the desired effect, then pick an out of turner and "blacklist" him for expedition QSLs. Sooner or later, we'll follow the intructions. Some times we're such bad dogs we need our nose rubbed in it.
Of course that's just my opinion from only half a dozen minor expeditions. But there ae alot of major expedition ops that do control their piles most w/o such drastic measures.
73 Ed KE3D
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, July 30, 2006 3:26 pm
Subject: [DX-CHAT] How do we make better DXers?
To: [email protected]
> It was frustrating and sad to listen to the KH8SI and 4O3T pileups
> this weekend (mostly SSB).
>
> When the DX station says, "The station with 7 in the call, ending in
> Germany" why do unrelated calls from all over the country continue to
> call? When the DX station comes back to a full callsign, why does the
> pileup size diminish only by half, rather than "all but one"? It
> makes it impossible for a better DXer to find the station being worked
> because so many others are still calling.
>
> The rate of these DX stations is being hindered by out-of-turn
> callers. When the rate is hindered, fewer people can work the DX
> station. Especially limited-time operations like KH8SI.
>
> It made me sad to be a DXer this weekend. My QSO with KH8SI on 17
> meters took THREE go-arounds because they could not get my call
> (presumably because of all the people still calling). That's TWO MORE
> possible QSOs that were wasted by the out-of-turn callers.
>
> OUT-OF-TURN CALLERS ARE SETTING A BAD EXAMPLE, RUINING IT FOR
> THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELSE!
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
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