Re: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions?
Errr...big deal. So what? If you don't like it, switch the thing off. What do you do if something comes on the TV that you don't like? Do you sit there getting angry? Durr? Dave G0OIL - Original Message From: Ron Notarius W3WN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dx-Chat dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Friday, 5 January, 2007 2:06:28 AM Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions? Ranks right up there with a handful who make repeated ads on the cluster for their particular web sites or services. Irritating. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barry Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:35 PM To: Dx-Chat Subject: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions? So I'm sitting across the room in the shack, doing something else, then some nimrod does this: DX de N4PN: 1834.0 1A4A Hw about 160m - Condx good! 0124Z GA and gets me to run across the room after DX4WIN announces it to see what's going on. I see it's a false alarm and go back to whatever else I was doing... I'd start blocking individual spotters who do this, but there are too many of them :.( 73, Barry -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Newtown, PA Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
Re: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions?
Dave, The TV doesn't cause DX filters to go off for the global masses of Ham Ops. Would you get upset if you "were" watching your favorite tv show and your neighbor had a remote and kept changing it on you? That is what it is like...Those who do not utilize software to announce DX activities do not understand this issue. It is a courtesy to utilize DX Clusters for ANNOUNCING DX...Not anything else. If someone chooses to utilize DX Clusters for anything else...they are making a conscious decision to NOT be a good operator. It is that simple. And if I notice this practice going on and I don't say something...then I am as guilty as the guy doing it. 73 Jose - N4BAA DAVE WHITE wrote: Errr...big deal. So what? If you don't like it, switch the thing off. What do you do if something comes on the TV that you don't like? Do you sit there getting angry? Durr? Dave G0OIL - Original Message From: Ron Notarius W3WN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dx-Chat dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Friday, 5 January, 2007 2:06:28 AM Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions? Ranks right up there with a handful who make repeated ads on the cluster for their particular web sites or services.Irritating. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barry Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:35 PM To: Dx-Chat Subject: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions? So I'm sitting across the room in the shack, doing something else, then some nimrod does this: DX de N4PN: 1834.01A4A Hw about 160m - Condx good! 0124Z GA and gets me to run across the room after DX4WIN announces it to see what's going on.I see it's a false alarm and go back to whatever else I was doing... I'd start blocking individual spotters who do this, but there are too many of them:.( 73, Barry -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Newtown, PA Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
Re: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions?
Chances are the DX will never even see the spot, so why post it?. When I was in C9 this summer there was just one location in Bilene, Mozambique that had internet access we knew about or could use and it was a ways from the hotel where we operated. We used it to communicate with our families for almost 3 weeks, not keep up with what folks were wanting us to do on cluster spots. Besides while we were grateful to have it, it did cost us 1 South African Rand per minute or $1 U.S. every 7 minutes, it was much slower than stateside dialup although it was billed as DSL. I didn't even read what folks said on DXscape until after I got back and did a search on C9 spots being posted and comments. 73 de Tom, WW5L/C91TL N4BAA - Jose Castillo wrote: I can NOT tell you how upsetting this isThey are DX CLUSTERSnot CHAT ROOMS It is amazing.actually...I don't think they understand what they are causing I address this at every Hamfest or club I visit to speak to... 73 Jose - N4BAA Barry wrote: So I'm sitting across the room in the shack, doing something else, then some nimrod does this: DX de N4PN: 1834.0 1A4A Hw about 160m - Condx good! 0124Z GA and gets me to run across the room after DX4WIN announces it to see what's going on. I see it's a false alarm and go back to whatever else I was doing... I'd start blocking individual spotters who do this, but there are too many of them :.( 73, Barry Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
RE: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions?
Because it's a misuse of the system. When I choose to monitor a packet cluster, I'm interested in seeing who's QRV and what bands are open to where; gives me some good starting points (and some ideas of where to avoid pileups). I am not monitoring the cluster to get ads every five minutes about another cluster web site (with a URL that doesn't work to boot). That's a misuse of the ANNOUNCE function. So I usually shut getting ANNOUNCEments off and stick to spots. Misuse of announcements ranks right up there with all of the spam merchants hawking get rich quick schemes, diet pills that only serve to fatten the merchant's wallets, and ads of a rather personal nature regarding bodily appendages and useage thereof. In fact, I wouldn't at all object to calling it cluster spam And... if there's something on the boobus toobus that I don't care for, I can change the channel to another program. But there's only one packet network these days, and I feel it is improper that I have to stop using it because others abuse it. 73 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DAVE WHITE Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:51 AM To: Dx-Chat Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions? Errr...big deal. So what? If you don't like it, switch the thing off. What do you do if something comes on the TV that you don't like? Do you sit there getting angry? Durr? Dave G0OIL - Original Message From: Ron Notarius W3WN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dx-Chat dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Friday, 5 January, 2007 2:06:28 AM Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions? Ranks right up there with a handful who make repeated ads on the cluster for their particular web sites or services. Irritating. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barry Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:35 PM To: Dx-Chat Subject: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions? So I'm sitting across the room in the shack, doing something else, then some nimrod does this: DX de N4PN: 1834.0 1A4A Hw about 160m - Condx good! 0124Z GA and gets me to run across the room after DX4WIN announces it to see what's going on. I see it's a false alarm and go back to whatever else I was doing... I'd start blocking individual spotters who do this, but there are too many of them :.( 73, Barry -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Newtown, PA Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
[DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions?
So I'm sitting across the room in the shack, doing something else, then some nimrod does this: DX de N4PN: 1834.0 1A4A Hw about 160m - Condx good! 0124Z GA and gets me to run across the room after DX4WIN announces it to see what's going on. I see it's a false alarm and go back to whatever else I was doing... I'd start blocking individual spotters who do this, but there are too many of them :.( 73, Barry -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Newtown, PA Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
Re: [DX-CHAT] Don't you hate when guys use the Cluster for DXped operating suggestions?
Oh yeah. And the No CW, SSB, RTTY, SSTV, MS, AM, FM, general portion? whines that begin 1 hour into an operation. 73, (an equally grumpy) Bob, W6RJC --- Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm sitting across the room in the shack, doing something else, then some nimrod does this: DX de N4PN: 1834.0 1A4A Hw about 160m - Condx good! 0124Z GA and gets me to run across the room after DX4WIN announces it to see what's going on. I see it's a false alarm and go back to whatever else I was doing... I'd start blocking individual spotters who do this, but there are too many of them :.( 73, Barry -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Newtown, PA Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
