In defense of SO2R operators, there aren't very many stations that have the receive-antenna isolation to effectively do SO2R on 160. It is far more likely that the offenders are single-op assisted or multi-op stations jumping on a DX cluster spot.
73, Steve, N2IC On 02/01/2011 06:33 PM, Rick Karlquist wrote: > Ron Spencer wrote: >> In this past weekend's contest I ran into this several times. I'd tune >> the band, find a "seemingly" empty spot, listen and then send a quick ?. >> Quick so that if its in use I don't cause QRM for too long. Listen >> again and if no response a quick QRL? If no response I'd start CQing. >> Several times I followed that exact sequence only to have someone, >> presumably the previous "owner" of that spot call CQ after I'd CQ'd, >> sometimes, several times already. Again important to note absolutely NO >> response to my earlier requests if that spot was busy. >> >> Here is what I think is happening. Whomever was there was off working >> someone on the second radio. Only after I started to send CQ did they > > Maybe but OTOH, I have had this happen to me when I was trying to > listen to a weak signal on a beverage and didn't hear the QRL at > first. Sometimes I may be listening for an entire minute without > transmitting if the other station is sending slowly, etc. It > may seem like the frequency is not busy, but it is. > > I think if you find an "empty" frequency, you have to wait longer > to see if it is in use, and simply take the risk that you are > being an "enabler" for an SO2R station or the risk that the frequency > truly was empty, and someone else poaches it. (The well known > phenomenon where someone who is looking for a frequency hears your > QRL? and sends "YES" and starts CQ'ing.) > > Rick N6RK > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
