Pop quiz for the class.

[W3WN]

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When I posted this in a thread over at the swamp, Burt got upset with me because I was too rude and selfish to take a few minutes out of my busy schedule to answer this guy. His rule is that you should answer EVERYONE who responds when you call CQ no matter if you are calling CQDX or not!

No, actually, I think his rule is that every thread he deigns to participate in should be about him, and him alone.

How else would you know how beloved he is of his children/students, especially if he doesn't constantly tell you?

[KJ3N]

How else would you know how beloved he is of his children/students, especially if he doesn't constantly tell you?

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[kb2vxa]

Originally Posted by KJ3N
To put it bluntly, Burt can go fuck himself.
N0IU replied:
Oh man... I was sitting here eating my breakfast minding my own business and you had to put that mental image into my head!

And I'm very thankful I finished my coffee before reading that!

Reminder to self: Always make sure you've finished your morning go juice before reading anything by the crazy Misfits or you'll be sorry.

[KJ3N]

Only 4 days into this mode...

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[W3WN]

See if you can guess why I didn't respond.

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First one to guess correctly, gets the gold star.

You were sending "CQ DX" and you don't consider them DX.

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And I see I was late to the party, as usual. Oh well.

[KJ3N]

You were sending "CQ DX" and you don't consider them DX.

They're on the same continent as I am. They're not DX. Morans....

[W3WN]

They're on the same continent as I am. They're not DX. Morans....

Well, FWIW, I've run into the same thing. It happened when I was experimenting with PSK-31 (which I'm going to get back to with the 'new' rig), it's happened when I'm calling 'CQ DX' on CW.

The bottom line is that some induhviduals are clueless, pure and simple.

Reminds me of two incidents from the past...

(1) Back when I was in school, one year we tried a weekly 'Penn State ARC Summer Net' on 40 SSB. Got disrupted every week by some maroon, who had no association with the club or the University of any sort, just HAD to check into the net, and proceed to tell us about his life. The attempt to meet was officially terminated when we got together for Field Day, it wasn't worth the aggravation.

(2) I was talking with another ham on 2 meters. We were both mobile, heading to the same destination. So a relatively new ham from a county away breaks in, joyfully tells us how happy he is to work us, and proceeds with his life story. He should have paid a little more attention to the subject at hand; we were both on the way to the funeral home, for the viewing of the wife of a long-time club member. Suffice to say, the clueless one never paid attention to the conversation he was breaking into, or never realized how inappropriate that 'break' was.

[n2ize]

Well, FWIW, I've run into the same thing. It happened when I was experimenting with PSK-31 (which I'm going to get back to with the 'new' rig), it's happened when I'm calling 'CQ DX' on CW.

The bottom line is that some induhviduals are clueless, pure and simple.

Reminds me of two incidents from the past...

(1) Back when I was in school, one year we tried a weekly 'Penn State ARC Summer Net' on 40 SSB. Got disrupted every week by some maroon, who had no association with the club or the University of any sort, just HAD to check into the net, and proceed to tell us about his life. The attempt to meet was officially terminated when we got together for Field Day, it wasn't worth the aggravation.

(2) I was talking with another ham on 2 meters. We were both mobile, heading to the same destination. So a relatively new ham from a county away breaks in, joyfully tells us how happy he is to work us, and proceeds with his life story. He should have paid a little more attention to the subject at hand; we were both on the way to the funeral home, for the viewing of the wife of a long-time club member. Suffice to say, the clueless one never paid attention to the conversation he was breaking into, or never realized how inappropriate that 'break' was.

Or how about the morans who just key up on a repeater, give their callsign and say "listening". So yeah ?? you are listening, what I am supposed to do or why would I care ? I am certainly not gong to respond to them. If you want to talk break into an established conversation with something relevant to the topic at hand. Otherwise shut up.

[kd6vm]

Or how about the morans who just key up on a repeater, give their callsign and say "listening".

I think every issue of every ARRL publication from 1975 to 2000 said that is the way to do it.

[n0iu]

Or how about the morans who just key up on a repeater, give their callsign and say "listening".

These are the same people who give their call sign followed by, "for ID".

Why else would you give your call sign??