When you have done your technical due-dilligence on the receive end and you know for a fact that another station is splattering badly and QRMing you and a lot of other people... How do you tell him? Or do you? I hate creating bad feelings on the air, and the usual rejoinder when I've actually tried this is angry defensiveness and sometimes even abusiveness.
W5WVO ------------------------------------------------------- Bill, this has nothing in particular to do with contest operating. I believe taking the abuse from the few is a part of our responsibilities as Hams. It's been a long time since a Ham license test including drawing an accurate block diagram of a rig, or of evaluating a schematic diagram of a key stage in a rig and finding a purposely included error, or of describing to an FCC engineer how to properly evaluate a transmitter's signal. Even then, passing a test and actually knowing how to operate a rig, are two different things. And knowing and caring are, for a desperate few, two different things as well. So even when we had such tests, there were those who didn't understand on the air. I suspect the numbers have increased. I have heard operators complain about getting a bad signal report, saying something like "I PAID TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THIS RIG. NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL ME IT ISN'T PERFECT!!!" When I hear a bad signal, I say so, politely and clearly. If the other operator is offended, perhaps he/she needs to grow up or find a new hobby. I expect nothing less from those who I work on the air. Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
