Furthermore, if it's the same YL I'm thinking of, she's the first Indian
national to participate in a DXpedition outside of India, and her
primary experience before this was PSK-31. I think I posted an article
on the DX-News reflector within the last month or two.
As many have said in the past, if you think you can do a better job
yourself, why aren't you there instead?
73 - Jim AD1C
On 2/10/2008 6:35 AM, Duane, WV2B wrote:
Last evening I spent a good amount of time listening to the TI9KK
operation on 14.205. Frankly I was amazed that the YL op could get
anything out of the undisciplined, continuous-calling mess.
But I was absolutely horrified when after the YL signed off stations
started commenting that they hope they have better operators, and
harshly criticizing the operator. Do these ill-mannered people {without
the nerve to identify} realize that even though the op signed off she
was likely still listening on the frequency?
Perhaps the operator was not the most experienced, but did the pileup
operators do anything to make it the least bit easier on her? No. What
about the station in the Carri bean who repeated the first 2 letters of
his call phonetically for 20 seconds or more at a time? Or all the
others who continued calling when the call identified obviously was
nothing similar to theirs? Multiply that by 10 and that was what the yL
had to work through.
What about the General Class operators heard? Come on guys. If you want
to be a DXer spend $25 for the manual, memorize the answers and upgrade.
Why do you think you should be adding to your DXCC total by operating on
frequencies not allowed by your license? Too bad ARRL doesn't have the
nerve to disqualify these guys.
It amazes me that DXers appear to be reasonable people in their lives
otherwise. Most are professionals, but they can't figure out that
transmitting while the DX station is transmitting, when the call
identified is not them, or continuously for long periods of time is just
stupid.
And, even on a simplex operation the policeman are there. The YL asked
folks to stand by for 5 minutes. of course, some kept calling. So
certain stations felt obliged to lecture the pileup for the whole 5
minutes about how they were supposed to be standing by, somehow missing
the fact that they were also ignoring the direction and not standing by.
What good were they doing? And of course, unidentified.
So, when criticism of the DX is considered, consider turning the DX
mirror the other way as well. If we take a good look we might be
surprised what we see if we take an honest look.
That YL went there to help others by giving them a contact. And they
rudely insulted her, and harshly criticized her. That was totally
uncalled for, If you want to criticize, criticize the operators who
prevented her from doing a good job.
If a guest came to your house and brought you a gift, would you
criticize them because you didn't think they did a good job wrapping it,
or maybe wasn't what you were expecting or hoping for? No that would be
rude. So why do it to Dxpeditioners. They went there to give you a
gift, the actions of the recipients prevented many from receiving the
gift, and they blamed the giver.
Of course, surely these were all inexperienced DXers just getting
started, right? Given a chance, hopefully they will learn better and not
keep repeating the same mistakes, right? And, when they take the time
away from work and their families, and travel on a boat for 40 hours,
and live on the boat, and take a rowboat into the jungle and operate I
am sure they will show us just how it is done, won't they?
Hopefully the YL did not hear those comments and won't decide to lump
the whole thing. She has good reason to.
73, Duane, WV2B
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