Thanks Mike 2E0YYY

Old Reflector
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Hi Mike

Thanks for the new unique G/CE-002.

Today was my 3rd attempt at activating VK2/SM-093 Livingstone Hill, 6 points.
Two previous attempts have been aborted due to bad weather. I wasn’t disappointed, 10 minutes into the activation it started to rain. I decided to stay, using a tarp as protection. I stayed on the summit for 90 minutes working 56 chasers including 4 summit to summits.

73
Andrew, VK1NAM

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In reply to VK1NAM:

Hi Mike

Thanks for the new unique G/CE-002.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for VK2/SM-093 Livingstone Hill, a unique for me too.

I stayed on the summit
for 90 minutes working 56 chasers including 4 summit to summits.

Seems you had the best of the 20m band. It was very difficult this end.

When I fired the rig up, I went to self spot, and was surprised to see that you decided to risk the WX and were QRV on 40m. I figured it wouldn’t be too long before we made a s2s. You were a very nice copy.

Of my first ten calls 9 were VK with a few tough contacts amongst them. Nice to qualify G/CE-002 Walton Hill, with 4 VK’s one of them a s2s with you. Working the 40m band was difficult with no Inter G, although half a dozen calls were received from Europe.

I saw from the spots, Matt VK1MA was working 12m from VK1/AC-041, however, when I took a look up there, I couldn’t hear a thing. About 20 minutes later, Matt found me on 20m for a surprisingly easy s2s and I think another unique VK1/AC.

The 12m band was utter pants, until I made a ground wave contact with G6LUZ at 0811z!

Thanks for activating the summit Andrew, catch you further down the log.

73 Mike
2E0YYY

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In reply to VK1NAM:
Hello Andrew,

Thanks for another summit and well done on the third try 8)

You slowly emerged from the noise into a good signal despite my local QRM on 20 in the form of radar pulses.

I hope you hear me on the next one. Local time 16.36 so time to take Bertie the greyhound for a walk in the Ashdown forest.

Best wishes
Mike G6TUH

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In reply to 2E0YYY:
Hi Mike Nice to meet you on Billinge and thanks for the spots 73 Geoff G6MZX

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In reply to 2E0YYY:
Hi all

I have updated the blog with a report on Livingstone Hill. It was quite a battle to control some of the chasers.

73
Andrew, VK1NAM

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In reply to VK1NAM:

Andrew, nice read. The problem with overtly aggressive chasers is not easily solved. Writing in your blog will have no real effect on people displaying what can be described as psychopathic tendencies. People who ignore specific calls from the ‘DX’ and call anyway don’t care.

The only way is to identify them on air and tell them to wait. If they persist you need to say one word which translates across all known languages… BLACKLIST. Give the callsign and say BLACKLIST. Watch the pileup manners improve. Do it twice and your pileup starts to play nicely.

It’s only a few bad apples that starts the rot but if you don’t do something to stop it then some of the more easily persuaded types will stop behaving too.

But hey, on the upside, being screamed at by people the other side of the planet when you’re out portable with a man-carried station is fairly cool!

Andy
MM0FMF

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In reply to MM0FMF:
Hi Andy

Give the callsign and say BLACKLIST.<<

Hmm, I haven’t heard of such behaviour in VK, not to say it doesn’t exist. I haven’t heard the outwardly bad behavior as I did on Saturday afternoon, but then I don’t go for DX contests. Previous SOTA DX activations have in general run fairly smooth.

Interesting hadn’t thought of ‘callsign BLACKLIST’, I will put that in the SOTA toolkit for next time. Oh and I was the one ‘screaming’ at them down the microphone, they seemed to pick up the tone of my voice and backed off. Don was in fine form :slight_smile:

73
Andrew