Caveat Lector wrote:
There is this to understand

All of the below is old hat and has been going on for a long time -- 30
years that I know of.
No worse now as compared to then.

I would disagree with that assessment.

There are a lot of things in ham radio that aren't worse than they were
30 years ago. But this isn't one of them.

I got my license in 1973 and I clearly remember a day when if you would
listen, you could almost always find the guy the DX was working. Yeah,
there were plenty of people who didn't know that - who would just pick a
transmit frequency at random & just call there - but they didn't call
continuously *every time* the DX stopped transmitting.

Indeed, while I hate to join the "I hate packet" bandwagon there really
does seem to be a correlation between continuous calling and the
explosive growth of spotting nets.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com