• You can now help support WorldwideDX when you shop on Amazon at no additional cost to you! Simply follow this Shop on Amazon link first and a portion of any purchase is sent to WorldwideDX to help with site costs.

11 meter is very quiet?

Over the past couple weeks I’ve noticed some 9 division operators asking 2 div folks to move local QSOs OFF of 555.

Though usually done politely, the typical response is, “yeah FU and your POS radio. What the F are you the D*** Canuck channel police? I’ll park my happy a** right here all F’ing day”...and the sort.

And then, over the following days you hear the same local QSOs with minor taunts about getting “yelled at”...blah, blah...

Best bet, leave them alone and work around them. Asking for etiquette seems to fail every time.
Asking for etiquette face to face, on the radio, or on FB is never a good idea. No one likes to be told what to do and less you pay them.
 
  • Like
Reactions: S&W357 and 2NC995
The thing with a lot of these folks is that they’re hanging out there hoping for international DX. Because someone told them they heard Italy, France, what have you.

But jaw-jacking on 555, with foul language, isn’t like to yield a bunch of international contacts. It’s more likely to get you ignored.

Seperately, there’s a bunch of folks no so mean-spirited, but just don’t know how.

So they call CQ, CQ, and they’re always “standing by in the Buckeye” or wherever.

What they don’t know is that it’s actually far easier to call with a QSY. The operator on the other end only needs to hear a tiny portion of the TX in between QRM to know where to find you. And if they can’t copy that, they’re sure as heck not going to have a quality QSO on the calling freq over the top of all the noise.
 
Heard a guy a few weeks ago..

“This is 152 calling international stations ONLY. 152 calling CQ, CQDX - INTERNATIONAL CALING ONLY. CQ international ONLY. 152 standing by for INTERNATIONAL ONLY”

I had to laugh...how the heck is anyone supposed to know where he is from, and what’s international to him?

Sure enough, when I follow a QSY to a station in Suriname...he’s the first person calling incessantly to reach me over the top of the “international call” that he seems to value so much.

That’s just the way it is. It will only get worse soon. I just try to stay polite, and do the best I can. About the “meanest” thing I ever do is ignore someone.
 
The thing with a lot of these folks is that they’re hanging out there hoping for international DX. Because someone told them they heard Italy, France, what have you.

But jaw-jacking on 555, with foul language, isn’t like to yield a bunch of international contacts. It’s more likely to get you ignored.

Seperately, there’s a bunch of folks no so mean-spirited, but just don’t know how.

So they call CQ, CQ, and they’re always “standing by in the Buckeye” or wherever.

What they don’t know is that it’s actually far easier to call with a QSY. The operator on the other end only needs to hear a tiny portion of the TX in between QRM to know where to find you. And if they can’t copy that, they’re sure as heck not going to have a quality QSO on the calling freq over the top of all the noise.
wanted to take this opportunity and thank you Dan for sharing your knowledge about international DXing, proper radio procedures, radio etiquette, using the cluster, and being a good teacher who explains things in a respectful way. I know I'm a greenhorn, greenhorns eventually become proficient if they work at it.
Thanks
 
wanted to take this opportunity and thank you Dan for sharing your knowledge about international DXing, proper radio procedures, radio etiquette, using the cluster, and being a good teacher who explains things in a respectful way. I know I'm a greenhorn, greenhorns eventually become proficient if they work at it.
Thanks

Nah, I’m a total greenhorn. For real.

I just try to share what I learn and am happy to see/hear some WWDX friends on the band and cluster. It’s fun working the international stuff, and I won’t lie that I’m lucky to be in a location where propagation is good most every day.

I see your account on the cluster and have messaged you. 121 division worked? Very nice!!

Good DX and all the best!
 
I heard some people talking on .555 yesterday. They were local talking. On AM. Heard lots of AM on other upper channels too and the regular 40 was swamped. Had some good exchanges on 37,38,39 LSB while people on 40 were AM. This morning I am hearing some local skip on 20. Sounds like Alabama or Mississippi local talk. They can't hear me for some reason. Haha!
 
Hey, Shadetree....was probably us you heard on 20 in Alabama. I'm back on the vertical Shockwave about 45 ft up. Had about 35 people from Virginia on up the eastern coast to NY coming back to me and a few friends just ratchet jawing locally. They couldn't believe I was running bare foot. I said it's all mother nature and my 6w Cobra 25LTD Classic lol....
 

dxChat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • dxBot:
    Tucker442 has left the room.
  • @ BJ radionut:
    LIVE 10:00 AM EST :cool:
  • @ Charles Edwards:
    I'm looking for factory settings 1 through 59 for a AT 5555 n2 or AT500 M2 I only wrote down half the values feel like a idiot I need help will be appreciated