[Dx-qsl] 9J2CA

Mon Jan 8 01:52:03 EST 2007

Guys
I've just received this e-mail from James, 9J2CA for whom I act as QSL 
manager and who is one of only 2 (maybe 3) stations active from Zambia. 
I am sure we can all sympathise with his situation and frustration. I 
will be interested in any feedback or suggestions as to how James may be 
able to deal with the situation as it will be a great shame if he does 
decide to give up the hobby as a result of the bad behaviour of the 
minority.
"Sorry to  have to complain AGAIN about very bad QRM from an Italian 
station (IT9KDB) which actually lead to him sending insults and abuse on 
top the station I was TRYING to copy (ZL1WN) the only ZL that I have 
TRIED to work on digi mode. (Olivia)

This mode gives virtually a 100% print, not unlike sending an e-mail, 
but without the expense of the Internet connection to send that e-mail, 
so there was no excuse for not being able to see that I was in the 
middle of a QSO and not wanting to have him repeatedly call me on top of 
the ZL. I was also sending the ZL's call several times to indicate the 
station being worked at the time.

I was getting very upset with this type of "rubbish" that is getting 
increasingly worse as the days go by and told this "fool" to QSY, get 
off the QRG, You are causing QRM, only have a full "blast" of Italian 
abuse, insults, the whole 9 yards on top of the final over that ZL1WN 
was trying to send; also no chance to work another weaker ZL that I 
think I heard under this nonsense that this station was causing.

I looked up the call on QRZ.COM and found an e-mail address (there is a 
picture of some kid playing with the radio equipment - probably reflects 
the mentality of the so-called operator) and sent of fairly "controlled" 
response/query to this character asking for explanation; just got back 
rubbish about not understanding English???

This is really getting too much now Phil and like most of the ZE's/Z2's 
that used to say the same thing some years ago; the reason why not many 
were not bothering with the "DX", that I'm finding the same thing now. 
This digi mode seems to have attracted the worst crowd as few of these 
EU's seem to understand English (they should be on VHF only) and use 
only the "macros" which have probably been set-up for them by someone 
who has the basic understanding. They only know that this macro is the 
first one to push, this macro is the second one to push and this is the 
sign-off one to push because if I were to "fire" a question at them, 
they are totally lost!!!

Getting on for time to work the ZS's only again - I went through a 
similar situation in 1985 and got fed up with this "big deal thing" to 
work DX and spent most of the time working ZS and local stations until 
coming up here to 9J - Land (except for the USA stations that were 
coming through on the Long Path and now not heard); pity! But this type 
of thing will discourage the few African stations from bothering with 
these DX stations all together - they will have to wait for the odd 
expat or AID worker that may be licensed to give them a QSO and a much 
sought after QSL card!!!

Sorry OM, but really, enough is enough; wish I had the money to be 
import some of the fantastic  aircraft/boat modeling kits that I have 
seen on the Internet; hang up the keyboard/key/mic for 10 years or so!!"
73 for now 
-- 
Phil Whitchurch
G3SWH, AD5YS
Work is the curse of the drinking classes!