eighthourlunchI know I'm seeing a breach of etiquette, but the chiding I see from time to time in FT8 kind of makes me grin.
"LOOK B4 XMIT", "LOOK FIRST" AND "USE UR EYES". Implied: "YA DINGUS!"
Comrade Weez@eighthourlunch It's FT8. It doesn't matter where you are in the passband. Moaner needs to click & move himself to an open spot. 🙄
K0Ì·IN Fr. Marty@weezmgk @eighthourlunch Just a guess, but the Italian station may be transmitting on top of some DX station. Maybe without even realizing it - or without hearing the DX station. Happens a lot on FT8, particularly on the upper bands (20m and up) where skip zones are a thing. He calls the Italian station a LID twice, and tells him to QSY once. But this list doesn't even show a decode for that station.
Or, someone just wants to drag Italian stations.
@k0in perhaps, but the thing about FT8 which is different from analog modes is you can be anywhere in the passband and move around at will until someone hears you. I'm in VK2. VK is 'rare DX' to a lot of hams, so when I call CQ, I'm mobbed, usually by overzealous JAs, and have to move around frequently so other stations can hear me. Freetext bitching at other stations is generally fruitless and shows a lack of understanding of the mode. Moreover, nobody has a right to anything. @eighthourlunch
@weezmgk @eighthourlunch Yes, I get it - DXCC and WAS 5-band on FT8 only, VUCC as well. But what I'm indicating is that most of the problem is because people call stations based on a spot that they can't hear. Nor can they hear the critic. And not many people understand that if at first you don't succeed, try moving.