LID UP!

[KE5FRF]

14.024

CW is supposed to be the gentleman's mode. The tension on that frequency rivals some QRZ threads.

Actually, pretty quiet right now. I haven't heard Scarborough Reef at all. Just the people calling "UP LID" http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[K3STX]

I guess you haven't heard lots of "FU" yet? I think that is often to aforementioned LID.

It is all part of the struggle to work a new one; always has been, always will.

paul "I'm not even gonna try" K3STX

[KE5FRF]

Quote[/b] (K3STX @ April 30 2007,19:15)]I guess you haven't heard lots of "FU" yet? I think that is often to aforementioned LID.

It is all part of the struggle to work a new one; always has been, always will.

paul "I'm not even gonna try" K3STX
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

No, I haven't heard that acronym yet, but I did hear a fight. About 2 hours ago, some true lid started up a QSO on the frequency without asking if it was busy. He just kept transmitting, talking about filters getting hot or some such nonsense, and everyone was emphatically calling "QSY" "QSY"...Well, it went ignored (or unheard, but I doubt it) for a good 5 minutes, and the calls became "QSY lid"..."idiot QSY"...then the guy said something to the effect of ..."Too scared to give your call?"

OK, another round of "up lid"s for another fellow. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

I think, sometimes people don't HEAR the dx station, and they QSY from another frequency and don't realize what's going on. Of course, no excuse for not asking QRL, but still.

[kf4vgx]

And here embarks the perfect conversation for morse code http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif .


F.U. stands for friends united,don't it http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif.
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[AG3Y]

Further evidence of the reason why I am not a DXer/contester !

SSTV is bad enough! You should see some of the pictures that get sent when the operator loses his "cool" !

73, Jim http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif

[KE5FRF]

Quote[/b] (kf4vgx @ April 30 2007,20:59)]And here embarks the perfect conversation for morse code #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif .


F.U. stands for friends united,don't it http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif.
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
abso-tively http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[KB5FSV]

those are the type of operators I wish I could just pull through the microphone and choke

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif ...oh there are idiots like that over on 75 / 80 meters, too.

Makes you wish they would just go back to cb where they obviously came from , and taking advantage of the cw test being removed !! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[ka5piu]

Hello.

Every time I hear "LID UP!" it is an upset female after I forgot to put the toilet lid up.
Perhaps there is a connection?

[kb2vxa]

FU2-1066

[wa9cwx]

I don't know how many of you fellows have been around for awhile.

I have been 'hanging around' the low end of 20 meters, chasing DX and listening, for the better part of 43 years.

Whenever there has been a DXpedition, the excitement grows, and some hams make mistakes, MOST often it is making the first call or two ON the DXers frequency. Years ago, a small offset was normal, then "split" operation became the norm for rare DX.

I remember just about ZERO, yes, ZERO, intentional interference.

Occasional jerks, rarely, but intentional QRM, to a DXpedition, was so rare, that it was shocking when it happened.

MAYBE someone remembers things differently, but it seems that the type of intentional QRMing, along with the unbelievable number of just plain dumb, unaware, cluless type 'operators', just did not exist years ago.

Not that everyone was a gentleman during a DXpedition, nor was it true that illegal power was unheard of, but the TOTAL number of just plain stupid people seems to have SKYROCKETED in the last few years

I think THAT is why you here so many frustrated 'FUs' and quick on the trigger 'QSY' comments these days.

I just spent 2 hours on 14022, and switching to 18074..... Cluless is the one word that seems to apply to just a HUGE chunk of people that SEEM to never have had access to these frequencies before.

Sad. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[WA2ZDY]

Quote[/b] (wa9cwx @ May 01 2007,18:51)]I don't know how many of you fellows have been around for awhile.

I have been 'hanging around' the low end of 20 meters, chasing DX and listening, for the better part of 43 years.

. . .


I remember just about ZERO, yes, ZERO, intentional interference.

Occasional jerks, rarely, but intentional QRM, to a DXpedition, was so rare, that it was shocking when it happened.
I hope you're ready because I see you being declared this week's elitist OF.

I agree with you of course and that makes me an OF too - a title I wear proudly.

[k2gsp]

20 meter phone was out of control today trying to get that contact. They were so spread over the band. I couldn't tell where the DX was. It ran from 14.150 up as high as 14.350. They were lined up and beating each other up. I had to check DXwatch to see where the dx was. It turned out to be on 14.180. Needless to say I didn't even give it a shout.

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif ...so apparently grouchiness on the radio is at an all time high ?