Lousy Inconsiderate Dummies.

I bought my first HF radio last week and was very excited to hook it up to the club's beam antenna and try it out..
I found a non used frequency and called CQ and talked to one or two people and then some L I D came along and decided that he wanted to do a contest on the frequency I already occupied.

I'm not quite for certain if the man was from this country or another country, because his english was not as good as mine. But several people tried to tell him that this frequency was in use and he just kept going.

Maybe the problem was that he was using some type of wire antenna and a amplifier and he was using too much power and couldn't hear as good as he could talk.

So I found another frequency and started again, and people started coming along and tuning up on my frequency. Between the hums and the whistles, I was trying to carry on a conversation.
They were coming in S-9 strong, so it wasn't as if they couldn't hear me talking.

I wish that someone could invent a radio that when someone acted stupid and started being stupid, you could press a button and blow their radio and amplifier up and then they wouldn't do stupid stuff like that anymore.

This weekend was great for propogation, I heard lot's of foreign stations from Europe and those people were only running about 400 - 600 watts.
I didn't talk out of the USA though because that was all the further my signal would go.

Lot's of people down in Louisiana and Mississippi and Florida and Georgia came back to me along with some from Texas and California.
Made a lot of good contacts and a couple of new friends.

I wish that every person that reads this post takes it to heart and actually tries to be a better Ham Radio Operator.
Ask if the frequency is in use.
Give your call sign phonetically and slow.
Go tune up your radio and amplifier in a empty place and turn down the transmit power when you are tuning up. There is no reason to be a inconsiderate Ham.
We all need to share the bands.