In my mind, the station you are talking about is very inconsiderate and lacking poor judgement. It is a common thing to call and say hi to someone on TB when the condx are slow or poor propagation. If I were to get such an email, I would never work thay stn on any band, any mode, contest or not! 73,Ray N6VR PS would like to know who it is so that I don't have the same experience.
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Don Kirk <[email protected]> Date: 1/31/18 6:52 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Mark K3MSB <[email protected]> Cc: Roger Kennedy <[email protected]>, topBand List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Topband: 160m DX Activity Night HI Roger, Thanks for the message, and interesting about the station you mention and his website saying "no dupes". I was shocked when I was told not to work the European station again. I just checked his clublog and in 6.5 years I had worked him a total of 3 times which to me does not sound too excessive for the topband. It's like these guys think they are on some rare dx-pedition or something. I just don't get it. I have received a few very nice e-mails from European stations since my posting this morning telling me to call them anytime I hear them (which is very nice). 73, Don On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Mark K3MSB <[email protected]> wrote: > Don > > I read your post with some interest and dismay as something similar > happened to me last November > > 160M Wasn’t producing anything at my SR so I dropped down to 80 CW. I > worked a few stations, one of which showed up as being worked a few years > earlier on 80 CW. At that time I was logged into the low band chat room > and that same DX station was on and made a non-positive comment that he had > “two repeats” this morning. I checked his website and he clearly says > “No Dupes”. > > A lot of times I do not have my PC up and running in the morning before > work; if I make a contact I just enter it as memo on my phone and enter it > into the actual log when I get back from work. Working these “No Dupe” > guys really doesn’t worry me per se, but if I’m trying to work them and > they decide not to respond as I’m a “dupe”, then it wastes my time to do > so. > > Last night there were some nice EU sigs on TB and I worked several of > them (all “repeats” but they didn’t seem to care). > > 73 Mark K3MSB > > > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
