is how people can expect to work FT5XO on CW when they can't copy Morse.

Fired up on 40m this evening, but sat the paddle aside & gave up on
working them (for now) when I found it simply totally impossible to
figure out where the FT5 was listening. The offending calls below are
NOT fake; while I don't guarantee I copied them all right, I'm pretty
sure the operators appearing after "Pileup:" below really are lids.

FT5XO: KC4AUF 5NN
Pileup: W3QY W3QY KI0F KI0F

FT5XO: K2CI 5NN
Pileup: K2FU K2FU

FT5XO: VE7XF 5NN
Pileup: AA9PB AA9PB

FT5XO: WX2K 5NN
Pileup: K1UO K1UO

FT5XO: K7 UP LID
Pileup: VE3XB VE3XB

FT5XO: N9IW 5NN
Pileup: KV0Q KV0Q

FT5XO: K8IW 5NN
Pileup: K3PA K3PA

FT5XO: UP LIDJAQ 5NN
Pileup: KV0Q KV0Q

FT5XO: K9NA 5NN
Pileup: NS1L NS1L

OK, at least in the second case, the guy who called had more than one
letter in common with who FT5XO came back to.....

There are plenty more guilty parties out there. It was difficult to
collect the incriminating evidence, as before one "I don't recognize my
own call!" lid could finish sending his call, another one would call
over the top of him.

Figuring out where the guy FT5XO actually came back to was is simply
impossible in this mess. I DX for fun -- this kind of crap isn't.
Dialed down to 1510 in the BCB & got my new one down there...

Hint to DXers: IF YOU CAN'T COPY CODE, DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO WORK DX ON
CW! That's what SSB and RTTY are for...
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

(will try the FT5 later in the week, when hopefully I can be on past
some of these lids' bedtimes...)