I know that I've been QRM on top of the DXPedition I've been trying to get, always accidentally but I've been on the Tx frequency & calling when the DX is looking for specific locations ile EU/AF/OC & so on. I've never intentionally QRMed anyone. As I said though, I've made unwitting mistakes.
I can only figure one possible how someone is exactly on PTOS Fx and repeated keep calling directly on the DX Transmit frequency and that is that they have their radio set split and then reversed it while still listening to both frequencies simultaneously. This way they would hear the DX call but not know they were actually transmitting on the calling frequency. I think to ascribe that scenario to most of the callers is manganous, most I think put blinders on when calling and only focus on the DX calling back to them and all the UP & SPLIT & LID passes right over them,. Sometimes calling their call on frequency and saying up 5 will do it but most of them are hogs at the trough and are oblivious to everything except what they are listening for. As to people calling when it obviously not them being called, I suspect on the innocent side of it & using my KA1J call for example, I hear a KA? Of course I reply till I hear the DX confirm or deny. I hear a 1o, there's a problem, I often have to correct DX that my call is ka1j not ka1o, they miss the dit at the beginning of the j. & there's different permutations where my munged call might be what they are coming back to. Sometimes I send my call with a ?BK and that works in my favor sometimes he was trying to hook someone else. But back to farm animals, I think most of the people around the world that keep calling when the DX is obviously trying to pull a specific call out of the mud are selfishly hoping to overpower the station the DX is working on and hope that their signal will be clear enough that the DX gores to them and then the 1st station can try again if they want. The People who are doing this are pigs and do it deliberately. I find this incredibly offensive. I remember a 2M SOB back in the E. St. Louis area who used to jam one of the St. Louis repeaters. All kinds of jamming styles; a frequent one was where he would speak in tongues and tell everyone he was speaking to China. One day his station was off the air and he never came back on the rest of the time I was there. Local clean-up I understand. I understand no farm animals were injured. Gary KA1J _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - [email protected]
