If you deliberately "park" next to it and send CQ, you are doing it intentionally it's DQRM no matter how you spin it. Otherwise there is no point to park beside him if you're not trying

Man, that's a $5 word, corollary. Randy W4RTT

The corollary is: Just because you don’t see a signal, that doesn’t mean you won’t be stepping on someone that can see you. It’s very possible to cause interference and not know you are doing

Anyone needing SD, Gary KE0WM is on 20 meters right now, very strong signal into North Texas. I have him about +1600 on my waterfall. 1538Z is the current time. Jim K5SP

Sorry about that Jim, I'll turn the house a bit and try again Hi Hi Randy W4RTT

Ok Justin, take a pill,LOL I didn't have the FT8 software running, so I don't know who the culprit was. Randy W4RTT

Hey Randy, you are a very strong signal into North Texas right now. Have been responding to your CQ but guess you don't hear me on my puny wire antenna. Brightest trace in the waterfall, and it is

Perhaps posting this kind of stuff here may help someone become a better operator. Jerry N9AVY

Also depends on whether or not station at other end understands "QRL" ... to my way of thinking it would be shorter to "QRL" than to ask "is frequency busy" thus perhaps a shorter interruption of

QRL means "is this frequency busy?". While it is quite appropriate for phone where the band width takes up about 2.8 KHz, it is not so useful for digital modes such as PSK31 where the bandwidth is

AGAIN--WHY POST IT ON HERE? Why not e-mail the offending operator directly?? PLEASE ANSWER THNE QUESTOIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Justin--KC2GIK 070-751 Justin Mattes-KC2GIK http://www.justinmattes.com

Jm: Wen that happens I just move up/down a bit and keep calling. An honest mistake. Jerry N9AVY

No Jim, it wasn't you. It was earlier this morning. I don't think he is an LONP guy. Randy W4RTT

Hope it wasnt me. I was calling CQ last evening, and had few takers. A couple of times I had a freq, sent my QRL? macro, got no response, called CQ, and all at once an ongoing QSO showed up in

One way to avoid that happening is to put out a "QRL ? QRL ? " call or simple inquiring if frequency is in use . QRL means same thing in a Q Signal form. There was a day all ham were familiar