Yes I know this is not really SOTA but it is nice when people are generous.
About 10 minutes or so ago I was listening to TA3AX (Asiatic Turkey) calling for outside EU with not much response (59 here) so I spotted him on the DX-Cluster. I could not call him because of the CQ type. Then I heard “If you are there Michael thank you”. I went back to him and we exchanged reports and then he resumed calling. How kind to say thanks, made my day 
Mike G6TUH
In reply to G6TUH:
And it was great of you to respect his CQ! Thank you for showing a great example of how ham radio can be…
73,
Linda
AB7YL
In reply to G6TUH:
Nice one Mike 
Allan GW4VPX
When I am activating SOTA on 12m, I sometimes hear these calls. If they say “outside Europe” then I don’t answer, obviously. Mind you it could be interesting if Nigel Farage wins the TV debate with Nick Clegg, we end up leaving EU and then us Brits can answer those calls!
However, if I hear a station (say from Turkey or Cyprus or even Romania, as has happened within the last week) calling “CQ DX”, and they go a few calls without a response, then I sometimes answer them. After all M1EYP/P on a SOTA summit could be DX for them. Without exception, they have been pleased to work me and they have chatted with me unhurriedly about my wkg cndx on the summit. I wouldn’t be cheeky enough to answer these calls if I wasn’t doing a genuine SOTA activation, but when I am, I feel I can be that bit cheekier.
I suppose it helps that “M1” is still a relatively rare prefix on HF, especially on the CW segments.
Tom M1EYP
In reply to M1EYP:
How am I supposed to know what the other amateur’s definition of “dx” is anyway??? ;)))
In reply to G7LAS:
How am I supposed to know what the other amateur’s
definition of “dx” is anyway??? ;
Because you have been licensed for about 22 years and should know these things by now!
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to G6TUH:
Had a similar situation last Tuesday on 12m, heard a strange signal and then discovered it was a station on “LSB” and not a rogue EU taxi firm. Turned out to be OM0ET calling cq North America. I called him back and explained he was transmitting in LSB, upshot was, we had a long chat and and thanked me for pointing out his error. Good result…
Mick G8NVX
In reply to G7LAS:
How am I supposed to know what the other amateur’s definition of “dx” is anyway??? ;)))
Moot point.
For me, exclusively QRP, DX can be quite close by, so I never call for ‘DX’, it’s hard enough getting contacts these days, on any band.
But if the call (presume on SSB) was for ‘outside Europe’ then ithe meaning of the call is plain, and surely excludes any European country that is out of, as well as those within, the European Economic Community, so Mr Farrage makes no difference!!
I wait to see if anyone comes back to them, and if they continue calling for ages with no reply, will sometimes drop in a quick report, as in “(her/his call, my call) 599” etc., to at least let the op know he/she is being heard. As I say, it’s hard enough getting QSOs sometimes. Where is everyone when there are no contests, no DXpeditions, and no SOTA activators to form pile-ups on??
Les
In reply to G0NMD:
it’s hard enough getting contacts these days, on any band.
I thought like that once. Then I found the aerial wasn’t connected.
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to MM0FMF:
I thought like that once. Then I found the aerial wasn’t connected.<<
Of course, in ye olden days they discovered that if you used cw you could work dx without an antenna being connected (AA Licence)
greeting Ken G3XQE
In reply to G3XQE:
I don’t know about DX, but I tried a car bulb as a dummy load on 70 cms once, and worked a local!
Les, I have no trouble working around the world with an FT817 and a 102 foot doublet despite my high local noise, except when a CME strikes! I suspect that if you are having problems getting contacts you may have a defect of some sort that needs correcting, which is what Andy was hinting at in his own inimitable fashion!
73
Brian G8ADD
In reply to MM0FMF:
Do you mean that not only Xmitter, battery and pole must be carried on activations, but an antenna as well? I might miss it while reading sota rules!! could you not specify it on them? Must we think on it all??
:-\
72 de Mikel
In reply to G0NMD:
those within, the European Economic
Community, so Mr Farrage makes no difference!!
Let me explain that the European Economic Community doesn’t exist anymore, as it became the European Union several years ago.
Where is everyone when there are no contests, no
DXpeditions, and no SOTA activators to form pile-ups on??
I ask myself the same question. The answer is: most of them on the internet.
Cheers,
Guru - EA2IF