Pile up handling (Was: TI9M)
Costas Krallis SV1XV <sv1xv@...>
On the subject of pile-up handling by DX-stations, it
is true it takes a lot of experience and self discipline to do it smoothly. I have only handled a few minor pile-up with SP and DL on 6 m SSB, so I can undertand how demanding the job of a real DX operator is. The worst DX operator I have encountered was an EA who activated a rare IOTA close to my location on 21 MHz SSB. He was listening on his own frequency and, while propagation was good for me and signals booming at S9, I was unable to have a QSO after 2 hours of well timed calls. What was wrong with him? Instead of calling "QRZ? THIS IS XYZ, IOTA XX-000" and listen, he would consistently call one of the kilowatt stations who were breaking over the last QSO. You can easily guess the chaos caused by this practice. Costas +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Costas Krallis SV1XV * LOC KM18UA | | P.O.Box 3066 * E-Mail: sv1xv@eexi.gr | | GR-10210 Athens * PGP key: 0x3BDBBC34 | | GREECE * http://www.qsl.net/sv1xv/ | | * http://w4u.eexi.gr/~sv1xv/ | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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