Re: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-14 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Jose Amador wrote: > > > For me, the proven offenders can be ATTENDED stations. Indeed, Jose, this is always possible. Who among us has not on some erroneous occasion transmitted without listening long ENOUGH, and instead unintentionally QRMed an innocent QSO? But VERY few of us would ever d

Re: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-14 Thread Jose Amador
For me, the proven offenders can be ATTENDED stations. The past week I was linked to a Winlink station on 40 meters when somebody started calling on top of us. I turned on my linear, and he kept on calling. Three options to be heard: my correspondent, me, and me and my half gallon linear. An

RE: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-13 Thread Dave AA6YQ
radio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war Dave AA6YQ wrote: > > No one is beating on Pactor. The objects of mass disgust are > unattended stations that transmit without listening, thereby QRMing > other stations. Many of these happen to use Pacto

RE: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-13 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
At 07:29 PM 1/13/2008, you wrote: > >John, do you really characterize the innovation that's been driving the >development of new digital modes as "madness"? Do you really think that the >explosion of soundcard digital mode users is "the problem". No I don't Dave. But I do feel that some have c

Re: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-13 Thread Roger J. Buffington
Dave AA6YQ wrote: > > No one is beating on Pactor. The objects of mass disgust are > unattended stations that transmit without listening, thereby QRMing > other stations. Many of these happen to use Pactor III, but that's no > fault of Pactor III. As I've said here before, we don't ban cars >

RE: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-13 Thread Dave AA6YQ
No one is beating on Pactor. The objects of mass disgust are unattended stations that transmit without listening, thereby QRMing other stations. Many of these happen to use Pactor III, but that's no fault of Pactor III. As I've said here before, we don't ban cars because some people drive drunk; n

RE: [digitalradio] (was : Trouble at mill RTTY contesters war

2008-01-13 Thread John Klim, N3KHK
Sorry about the bandwidth. "Stop the madness!" how? Programmers love changing programs. As always flames to me, respectful and clean posts to the reflector. 73 ES CUL == Mr. John R. Klim II N3KHK ARRL LM-0008416263, AMSAT LM-2187, QRPARCI #1