On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:44 PM, r miles <[email protected]> wrote:
> ....at least 5 or 6 idiots were calling... =========== When I was first licensed in 1957 this and all the many related topics were discussed practically every month in columns in CQ and/or QST, and it will never change as long as there are pileups. Situations like this are treated on the website of every DXpedition, and the DX Code specifically addresses them. DX columns in CQ and QST still make exactly the same comments they made 55 years ago. However, it is fruitless. Every village has an idiot, and every pileup is the equivalent of several villages. As a side note: The NH8 DXpedition, like most recent expeditions, started out by trying to operate in the General portion of the bands, in order to maximize QSOs. They advertised on their website that this would be their policy. However, they are now operating entirely in the Extra portions at the very low end of the bands, probably in the hope that the pileup behavior will improve. Of course, to the limited extent that this improves matters, it's good only for CW and only on the non-WARC bands. And sad to say, the behavior of Extra licensees does not really seem to be much of an improvement. Still on-freq callers, still up-cops, still tuner-uppers, and still deliberate QRMers. It's natural to get frustrated, but as far as I can figure out, the best answer is just to learn how to work DX in spite of all this nonsense, because it ain't gonna go away. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
