It still amazes the number of callers who don't give a hoot in hell or "rat's ass" about their operating character! ZERO...NONE!....
No matter what station VP8ORK acknowledges, HORDES of callers STILL insist on calling and calling and calling still. Being a realist, I have to apply some logic...
1. Perhaps the caller really can't hear them that well. If this is the case....
A. Wait for propagation to change so you can copy the station and ONLY CALL when it is your turn.....or
B. Get a better antenna system so you can hear better. (A FOR SALE sign does wonders for propagation!)
2. The operator really is a LID and has NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOING....if this is the case.....
A. They need an ass whoopin' to liven them up to standards! There is no excuse for someone who does not want to operate correctly. WHY? Because it does matter!! There is a CORRECT way to operate you radio.... This is the "CHARACTER" I am speaking about.
B. They need to be hung up from the first set of guys until they stop twitching... Now I know the contesters reading this will say that will adversely affect the number of QSOs possible in any given contest....but the long term effects will be wonderful! So...it is case of needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few!
Additionally, these LID operators find it easy to mask themselves or "HIDE" behind the "camo" of a pileups where the DX station is operating SPLIT!! Really? Not so much! I have hours of recordings of stations like *ZXL, *DG, **LZ, and others who just turn the power and "attitude" up to just call and call and tail end and do whatever to get in the log....
Next pileup you are in....take note of who the DX station comes back to and tune up the band where the are listening...and just JOT DOWN EVERY CALL YOU HEAR that is OBVIOUSLY not PAYING ATTENTION and whose "OPERATING CHARACTER" is DISMAL to say the least.... You will hear some BIG NAME CALLSIGNS in there too! I mean some very very prominent calls! Send them an email and tell them you heard how they operate. Better yet...make a recording and send it to me... I am compiling a list to put on a website for everyone to 'grade'! What is the answer?
This is ALL too easy.... When I was operating as KG4SB from Gitmo Cuba....I had a great solution..... When I noted callers who just wanted to do it "their" way..... I logged their QSOs with an ! at the end of their call.... Oh they were happy at first.....they got in JOSE's log..... then the QSLs rolled in...and guess who wasn't in the log??? YOU GUESSED IT! EVERY call with a "!" after their call got a NOT IN LOG report with their returned QSLs! Needless to say, these ops are PISSED OFF BEYOND belief! I was not and will not reward ANY station with confirmation of a QSO if they were not at least 'decent' ops..... NO LoTW uploads...NO eQSL uploads....NO QSL period! Many of these QSOs were on 80 and 160 meters....and those operations from GITMO are few and far between..... of the 30,000 QSOs I have made from there, I have a list of 411 different stations that I will not confirm QSOs with .... SORRY amigos/amigas that is how the ball bounces! More and more DX stations are doing this as well! I LOVE IT! You MAY think they don't know what is going on...but I will tell you they do!
So.... you guys/gals who want to 'pump up the volume' and be asses!.... YOU are cleared for takeoff.... But you know what ......no GOOD sense can be talked into these lame brained folks! They are too set in their ways and will NOT assimilate one bit. They are their own breed. And they breed other lame brains as well. So...be on the watch for those "pileup boneheads".... I'll be posting a list of them soon!.... It won't be BAA's opinion regarding their poor operating choices, it will simply be posted for others to judge for themselves.
Until next time, tune for max power out, make sure you can here who you are calling, keep the pileup behavior in check, and make sure your Operating Character is what it should be.
73, God bless and for Pete's sake....learn CW!
Jose - N4BAA
Chief Elmer
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