I try to contact and i receive a IDIOT as response ?? Who do you think your brother is? How dare you, you could send a message and explain why instead of talking nonsense. We are not all as expert as some, you could have sent a message and explained the reason..
Sorry you received this message; however, you were transmitting in the same time sequence as the 6O3T station. Your receive window in the even sequence shows that you were NOT receiving 6O3T. If you can not hear them, then you can not work them. Tom K5TEE
The person who insulted you is the idiot! Rudeness is never helpful. A good way to avoid being on the wrong time slot is this: when you see the DX transmitting, choose a frequency that is not busy on the waterfall, and then double-click the line where the DX is transmitting. Good luck!
I didn't know that transmitting in the same time sequence as the 6O3T station ""At first I received them, I replied to the cq but then I only realized now that I no longer received them and the software made the 3 calls"" it could cause problems. I'm new to FT8. They could have sent me an instant message here on QRZ. I think all DX expeditions should have a call list where 10-30 people line up and the operators call them gradually. Instead, chaos ensues. You surely understand what I'm referring to. The spirit of amateur radio is now based on who has the most KW and the best antennas. Thanks for your time.
Actually FT8 sort of "levels the playing field" to an extent, and older CW and SSB DXers with tall towers and big beams find it frustrating when they can't blast through an FT8 pileup - they say it is pure luck! They are too used to breaking a pile up with little effort. In FT8 DXing you have to use your brain to try and get an edge - imagine what the DX station is hearing, think about how deep the pileup may be. Before transmitting, watch to see which stations are getting called, stop monitoring, copy the left-hand part of the screen to a spreadsheet and look back to see which frequencies people called on before the DX called them. There are a lot of techniques like this to gain an edge... I went from zero to 300 DXCCs confirmed in 3.5 years on digital (with QRO) using wires in trees by analysing data and finding patterns. I am only up to 258 on CW but getting there...
