What is it with extreme prejudices against the contest community in the Ham radio hobby?
The experience from my side: After an hour of calling CQ in the contest I suddenly get QRM'd by an Italian sounding station with no callsign telling me to QSY. I asked for a callsign, but instead I got abuse "change the record" etc. A second station came in and QRM'd me during a Q, stopping me hearing the exchange of a russian station, I asked several times for a callsign and eventually I was given SP7CDG, he gave me his callsign only after me specifying I would not be QSYing for a pirate station. After 5 mins of solid abuse deliberate QRM, insults, including (I am ashamed to say) a Scottish voice who came on accusing me of being rude!? This station gave no callsign, but again wanted me to QSY. After 10 mins of solid deliberate QRM I had to cease operating.
Why didn't I immediately QSY I hear you ask:
1) My frequency for over 1 hour.
2) I am a contester and as such I am now immune to abuse and deliberate QRM.
3) I do not QSY for pirate operators without a callsign.
So later on still angry about the experience, I find out that 3D2TWO decides to do a split operation on 10M SSB on the 16 March 2025. Is he a lunatic? Did he not think of looking up the contest calendar before he started? One of the biggest contests in the contest calendar (only the Russian DX contest!) is in full swing and this guy guy decides to start up a split operation in one of the busiest segments of 10m 28.488.5MHz (i.e. my frequency).
Although 3D2TWO has every right to start up on my frequency (as we both couldn't hear each other) this does not give frustrated stations who want to work him the right to deliberately QRM me and throw about abuse and insults and demand me to cease my operation. This is a sorry state, where new uneducated operators think that ham radio should stop for dxpeditions.and deliberate QRM and not giving a callsign is justified.
For shame Poland, Italy and Scotland
GM0ELP/MM3T
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