Drivers, start your Butt Hurt! WAAAAAHHHH!

[KJ3N]

And then we have some folks that are still Butt Hurt a year later, Ron.

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php...77#post3111377

:rofl:

[W3WN]

And then we have some folks that are still Butt Hurt a year later, Ron.

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php...77#post3111377

:rofl:

Some people won't let go of a grudge, will they?

[kb2vxa]

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[NQ6U]

We should come up with a ham radio version of the Butthurt Report Form.

[n2ize]

And then we have some folks that are still Butt Hurt a year later, Ron.

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php...77#post3111377

:rofl:

I have been in situations where some rude contesters started calling CQ right on top of an ongoing QSO. Now it is possible they didn't hear us. it is also possible they never bothered to check. So we moved a few kc's away and although we had some annoying QRM we managed to finish our conversation. Was it annoying ? yes. was it rude ? yes, particularly if they knew we were there. Am I going to carry a grudge over it for years later and condemn all contesters ? Certainly not. I learned early on that not everything that happens on ham radio is going to be to my liking and not everything is always going to perfect or polite. Some hams need to learn to just let things go and get over it already. Perhaps they need some hemorrhoid lotion and a softer cushion to sit on... :)

[n2ize]

You're absolutely right.

The problem is that the induhviduals who compose both sides of the coin, from a problem standpoint, seem to feel that THEIR needs/wants/desires/agendas supersede everyone else's. So when you have a jackass NCS run into a jackass Contester, or a jackass Contester run into a jackass Ragchewer, and neither of the jackasses is willing to blink...

The very same induhviduals who most need to take a course in basic radio etiquette are the very same ones who don't believe that they need to. Or care.

Very well put and very true.

[K7SGJ]

We should come up with a ham radio version of the Butthurt Report Form.

Let's do that.

The first one should obviously be

1. Another Contest Weekend

[kb2vxa]

"We should come up with a ham radio version of the Butthurt Report Form."

Is that a Papal Bull or just bull? OK guys, may as well get on it, and since the ARRL doesn't shiv a git, submit it for papal approval and one will receive official blessing. Now do you hate contests so much you'll hate an Island Butt Hurt Form contest too?

Contests are notorious for lids doing every sort of lidish nonsense in a mad dash to rack up points, even sane contesters hate them. AMers hate rude and disrespectful slopbucketeers as it is and have no choice but to abandon the AM windows during contests, even the WA1HLR slop bucket eliminator (SBE, not to be confused with the Society of Broadcast Engineers) can't discourage them. Oh, for an interesting read Google it. No sense getting upset, even less in holding a grudge, that's what the WARC bands are for.

Another Contest Weekend
Sung to the tune of Manic Monday, The Bangles

It's just another manic contest
I wish it were a hamfest
'Cause that's my fun day
My eyes are dry on that day
But it's just another manic cry day

Have to catch an early train
To get away from this pain
And if I had an aeroplane
An aero mobile would be a worse pain
'Cause it takes no brain to figure out what I'm gonna hear
Blame it on the contesters
But the lids are already there
(So I sit here pulling out my hair)

[n0iu]

One more week of peace before the rants begin again...

The 2014 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest
SSB: March 29–30, 2014
Starts: 0000 UTC Saturday Ends: 2359 UTC Sunday

I just checked my hyper-accurate propagation prediction program and it appears as if conditions will be excellent on 10, 15, 20 and 40 and 80 meters during the contest but strangely enough, there will be absolutely ZERO propagation on the 12 and 17 meters for those 48 hours.... just like it is during every other contest. Propagation will be very good to excellent on 30 meters, but that doesn't count since phone-only operators can't use that band. Sucks to be them!

[kb2vxa]

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