Nicolas, I agree wholeheartedly with what you say. I have to say that I almost never hear such bad manners from French-speaking operators. Parisian driving technique does not seem to have spread to ham radio!
The bigger question is: what can we do constructively to improve things? Cheers Dave G0OIL -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: 29 January 2009 09:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Descheo Island I am not sure the lack of enough understanding of English is the main factor. It is a logical fact to DO NOT shout your callsign (or even just your suffix) when a QSO is already in progress or when another suffix is asked. It is a nonsense and an egocentric behavior. I think the international alphabet is clear enough to avoid these kind of confusions by anyone from any country. I would not call if I hear from the DX "Alpha Sierra, go ahead", even if my name is ending by "AS"... Another part of the problem could be a culture difference (and the latin culture might have these significative differences: << me and what peoples would think about me and about my "power", first... >> (...let's worry about the others later). And to reply to another comment, this "problem" has nothing to do with this particular coming KP5 operation but is simply redundant with most of the rare DXpeditions. 73 de Nicolas F5FRM (a french/spanish latin one :-) ----- Mail Original ----- De: "ragnar otterstad" <[email protected]> À: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Envoyé: Lundi 26 Janvier 2009 18:57:41 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: [DX-CHAT] Descheo Island > > I can see right now what's going to happen when they > work Europe: > > When the operator says quite clearly for the fifth time > "Golf Nine Alpha Alpha Alpha five and nine", all > the Italians will keep shouting their last two for ten > minutes solid on the G9's frequency, overmodulating > their 3kW amplifiers and without pausing for > breath......even if they are in the log twelve times > already. Unfortunately, I think you are right. Part of the problem is lack of proper understanding of English, which applies to all the latin countries, where films are dubbed. Up here, we have subtitles, so people get language lessons without even knowing it !! > > > These guys are all pretty good o [The entire original message is not included] ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [email protected] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
