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by YI9VCQ on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
I get the same thing going on every single day. It's quite funny if you sit back and think of the "liddish" things your hear. My favorite is when I'm running a CW pileup. I send my call at least every 3 QSO's and send my QSL info when someone I'm coversing with asks. Invariably, I get QRM asking for my call and QSL info. It's funny that people just don't listen. I consider it very rude. I'll sit for untold minutes just listening for anything I may need. It WILL come around sooner or later. My second peeve is the folks who send "QRL?". I send "C C TU" and they just go ahead and pound away. Why even ask if you don't care? I'm not talking about weak signals either--these guys can definitely hear me. I just tune them out of my passband and keep at it. Hamming it up and lovin' it, Korey YI9VCQ Taji, Iraq

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by VE7ALQ on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
As a (semi)seasoned operator, I find it quicker to send the infamous "Ditty Dumb Dumb Ditty" after a word I have cloberred, than send the politically correct eight dits. I agree with you regarding QRL? which may simply be ignored. Maybe the offenders have an "S7" power line noise like I have as my noise floor, and honestly can't hear you. I hope I'm forgiven if I cause QRM to anyone.

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by WD4IMI on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Neil, For years I wondered why I couldn't make any DX contacts on CW..Now I know it is my call!!! Yep I use it on SSB "rude, annoying, and the sure sign of a lid" I fit right in with all those..Now if I just could remember my call!!! Dave WD4 "IMI"

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by KE6OUD on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Another reason to do away with the code........

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by W8CAR on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
You say tomato I say tomatoe. I hear ditta dah dah ditti- a perfectly respectable mark of punctuation that carries lots of meaning and is shorter than most calls. Now that you have vented do you feel better??? (or .. -- .. )!

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by K3YD on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Send your call every 3 QSOs? No problem! I do have problems with the operators who send their call every 10 or 15 minutes, while running a pile up at 200+ per hour. THOSE are the guys I'll query with a Ditty Dumb Dumb Ditty. In this age of packet call outs, too many OPs will call and log based on Packet Info. I know that some percentage of packet spots are WRONG. Sometimes I operate without spotting (packet) assistance. In either case, I want to hear a call myself, before I work it and log it.

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by W3PH on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
> In either case, I want to hear a call myself, before I work it and log it. Amen to that. Even if the spotting info is right, it's still generally only +/- 1khz and between propagation differences and being off by a khz, I figure odds are pretty good I'd wind up calling somebody completely different (and maybe somebody I'd just worked half an hour ago ... oops) if I couldn't confirm the call first ...

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by K0BG on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Oh the ubiquitous "QRZ" ! If I hear a DX station send QRZ and it's obvious the lid it was meant for didn't get the meaning, I'll send my call. Most of the time I get the contact I was looking for. That same lid is the guy who gets on phone and says "...QRZ the frequency..". I don't know about you, but in all my years of amateur radio, I have never heard any frequency call anyone. Alan, KØBG www.k0bg.com

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by EXWA2SWA on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
I LISTENED to XF1K's pileup yesterday for a while before discovering that he was running it "Up 2" from his own freq - I was going nuts since he was getting 599s from stations all over, and I wasn't hearing him at all! Made perfect sense, once I LISTENED & then jumped in for my exchange. Even as a nugget, it was amusing (and disappointing) to LISTEN to some of those seeking attention ... From the daze when I "listened to other people's mail", I recall hearing two stations working duplex. One station had an obvious love affair with the sound of his own side-tone & his partner's callsign and the other kept transmitting DE DE DE DE, in hopes, I suppose, of getting the other guy to shut up & LISTEN. As noted in another part of eHam, one never hears two receivers working one another; same-same two transmitters.

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by W5GNB on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
I am having a HARD time understanding what the problem is here, This is about as important as the agrivation of having the toilet paper unrolling Backwards in the bathroom. This is such a trivial complaint that it is not even worth discussing... Let't get on to something that matters such as "BPL" or "Incentive Licensing". DE W5GNB DIT DIT DIT DAH DIT DAH!!!!

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