On 2/4/2015 8:06 AM, Tom W8JI wrote:
I doubt making a whipping boy out of someone in public will have any
effect on the other 250,000 people who have done it at least once.
The point is not to make a whipping boy out of a specific person but
rather to point out the fact that specifically
I hold no malice against KK6ZM whatsoever!! After all this is only a hobby.
Several years ago I was laying the pipe on 80 CW chasing a rare one with
marginal copy.. I got an e-mail from a DXer saying that I was calling
out of turn. I could have replied with a standard military FOXTROT
UNITED
Well said. I'm glad Milt posted what he did, but I'm tired of hearing all
of this complaining.
Ham radio is supposed to be fun. Let's choose happiness, instead of
continually hitting the 're-play' button so we can stay mired in the
unchangeable past.
BTW, K1N was almost S9 here at 4 AM local
Well said Tom. Also it was doubtful there was actually a significant JA
opening to K1N. IMHO the buzz of JA activity could have occurred by a
remote JA station heard in the Midwest at 599 plus 10db who apparently
got in the log, but not from Japan. But other observers heard JA's
calling but
Calling out of turn not only is one of the least damaging things and most
common things someone might do. As a matter of fact, assuming the DX
stations has a reasonable bandwidth CW filter, out of turn calling is
thousands of times less disruptive to others than transmitting on the DX
for now de Milt, N5IA
-Original Message-
From: Herbert Schoenbohm
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 6:49 AM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: [Bulk] Re: Out-of-Turn Callers
Also it was doubtful there was actually a significant JA
opening to K1N. IMHO the buzz of JA
The lynch mob is clearly out to get KK6ZM when he apparently did NOTHING
WRONG. The mob is yelling 'crucify him', 'crucify him'. It began with a
biased post that failed to see the whole picture and the mob ran with it.
Some of the posts have displayed a surprising level of ignorance to the
Hi Guys,
We're all flogging a dead horse here---enough already.
People do make mistakes---did anyone not read Jon's (AA1K) ...confessional
here earlier?---s**t happens. Get over it.
I really am amazed at the herd mentality displayed by people, assembling to
viciously ceaselessly attack any
everyone would be calling. Forget the 6 in this specific case...it's the
incessant calling -- by some who participate on this list -- that has to
stop. The post will not stop the problem but if it starts to mitigate the
problem, we'll all be better off. If no one says anything, it will never
