Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
OK, there hasn't been much posted here lately that's actually about DX,
so here goes...
[ Lids in Pileups ]

I absolutely share your sentiments. Right now I am listening to
FH/G3TXF on 7022kHz. He is doing a great job, working a good
rate. After observing where he hears, I worked him after two
calls (700W, Dipole). Now that I have worked him, I am leaning
back and have a listen to people calling him; a sad pictu

DF3?
ja5aqc f5tni rn3ok

DF3L?
ja5aqc f5tni rn3ok

OK1 5nn
ur5fav

on TXF's QRG: "ANT TEST DE F5VHZ/P CQ CQ de F5VHZ/P PSE K"
"CQ de F5VHZ/P ANT TEST" -- "QSY QSY" "PSE QSY"
"QRZ de F5VHZ" "LID"
(he absolutely doesn't realize what he is doing!)

QRZ? FH/G3TXF up

SV8DKI? 5nn
ur8mg

G3?B?
ur5fav

G3 G3?
ut5vx ut5vx i3 ur8mg

(NB: I was listening up 2kHz with a narrow filter, although TXF
listened somewhere else most of the time.)

And so on, just a few minutes randomly picked up. It can always
happen that one sends his callsign *once* at the wrong time, for
whatever reason, but the calls I mentioned above were all heard
*several* times, so it's clear to me that they do it on purpose --
how very liddish!
I am sure that one could make a list of *hundreds* of calls with
lids who do this.

Another thing I observed last night, right after the CQWW 160m
ended, was 3V8DLH, calling "CQ WEST COAST", but some EUs,
especially DL4JNB, just kept calling. That made me unbelievably
angry, but I am not one of those who start complaining about it
on the DX frequency!

People need to learn that they are much more successful DXers
when they *LISTEN* before they call! Of the above mentioned
callsigns, some have *still* not made it through the pileup at
the time of writing, although they are certainly not the weakest.

The more I think about it, the more respect I have for guys like
G3TXF, who, in spite of all the horrible lids, QRMers, etc, still
go on DXpeditions and do a great job working their pileups!

73,
--
Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK/AD5UR * Dresden, Germany * http://fkurz.net/
Last 500 QSOs: http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/~dj1yfk/log.html