Brother Bill WA5SQO

Archetypal monastic ham-great QSO.

73 de Rob

Well I tried

VK3MO was into this QTH ~ 4-3 to 5-7 for about 90 minutes of frustration on my part-but I'll complete this one yet. Should not complain, Sweden, Italy, Costa Rica and Cuba (Ore, CO6LC could be next door most days) worked this day. 6M was dead-where are these openings people are writing about? Couldn't have anything to do with being a pissweaker station? Suprisingly good manners in the wolf pack, maybe spring is coming. I was the token goy on a Yiddish net-you know for an old white man's hobby we can be cosmopolitan (also used german and spanish to complete this week). 73 Rob

Getting Better

Sun must be getting some zits-worked PR8ZX (5-5, 5-7), Brasil and heard Oz, VK3MO, and JA's working Martinique. 7's and 6's very frequent-or I could be wrong.... 73 Rob

Pond Scum, orginally titled: Inconsiderate of Others

Amateur radio operators come in all sizes and a few idiots can expected from bad manners in pile ups to deliberate interference and all but broadcasting. This was going to be my happy little unread echo chamber but I hope someone notices this. This morning I was reading the mail on 14.300( Home of the Intercon, Maritime and Pacific Seafarers nets) and heard a HH/W**** trying to set up a sked and pass traffic regarding needs for sterile materials for the relief effort in Hati. During this effort there was more than one station engaging in deliberate interference-not tuning up stupid but QRMing with an audio osc., yelling and the imitation of flatulence. The establishment of nets is unpopular to some and the ones on this frequency get a bit of vitriol-not entirely undeserved perhaps-no one owns a frequency. Be that as it may be, refusing to yield a frequency to a net is at worst bad manners but deliberate interference to emergency communications is as wrong as slashing the tires on an ambulance, and both are done by the equally mean and stupid. 73 Rob

FB DX Ops And The Others

6W/PA3EWP did a FB job of managing the wolf pack while operating from Senegal, giving several breaks to let in the QRP crowd-oh is this an excuse to tell everyone I worked West Africa with about 8W! Not to mention HC2GF, TI2CDA, Minnesota and B.C. test participants.

Then there were the lids-notably those that tune up on top of a DX station, haven't figured a tune up a few Khz to one side won't effect the SWR when they tune to the DX station-or can't figure when the DX is working an offset and bellow on top of DX op.

73 Rob

SNOW DAY-NO DX-OK I LIED!

G4AKC Pedestrian mobile, Walking along the beach in the West of England
73 Rob