It has been my pleasure to have been a ham and DXer since 1959 at age 15. There was a lot of howling going on even back then. Once Buck Joyner (SK about 1970) was on AM. Someone told him he was "wide". He came back laughingly and said "I'm not wide, ...I'm just loud!" He had the biggest signal in Atlanta.
Many times people forget to put their VFO's on split, or they do not hear the DX station well due to QSB, QRM or whatever. I would say that the vast majority of DXers do not do anything intentionally in the heat of battle.... This is just a hobby and I do not think that we need any policemen. Nobody listens to them anyway. The ones that get upset are usually the ones that do not get through....... Nothing is going to change. I remember operating portable 9K2 while deployed to the combat theater in 2002. The Russian & European QRM was unbelieveable, and almost intolerable at times. However I politely told them to "stand by for USA" and didn't get upset at all. I did not put anyone on a no QSL list. In fact, when I returned stateside, I send every USA station a card at my own expense. I didn't care how many times they called on top of the station I was trying to work. 73, John, W4NU (K4JAG 1959 to 1998) _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
