K5D is on a roll, -- btw, He's Listening Up...

I was just down on 75 meters listening to K5D working the US "by the numbers". It was going pretty good Then after a while I noticed there seemed to be more interference. Then came the tuner uppers and the folks sending CW but of course no call signs. How do they make that wawa sound. There used to be a wawa pedal some of the bands would use but I think this is a little different. Anyway pretty soon the noise level was 30 over. You couldn't hear a thing, of course this is all happening in my left ear because I have the main receiver on K5D's transmit frequency and I'm listening up the band to his receive frequency which is also my transmit frequency. So I have a different bunch of noise in the right side of my head. I finally had to just pull off the phones and take a break.

But there is an unbelievable number of bad operators out there today. They don't listen to the station very long before they start transmitting on his transmit frequency. If they would just listen a little they would hear him say he's listening up. And he's even saying where up he's listening. It doesn't get much better than that. And don't even get me started on the frequency cops. Those guys need to get a life, not even a good life just a life. There are some really pathetic folks with nothing better to do than be jerks. In the meantime K5D is racking up the contacts. Today the count is over 60,000 and they still have a week to go. The third group just arrived so there will be some fresh operators to take the abuse.

I was getting pretty aggravated because it seemed like they were not working much into the General portion of the band. Then today on their website they posted an announcement that they would not be working the ARRL CW contest this weekend and they would spend most of the weekend in the General portion of the bands. What a great choice! They should be applauded for this. I'm sure a lot of folks will now get a chance to work them that otherwise would have missed out. Which will probably turn into some extra support money coming in.

So fire up the rig and get on the bands you've got a good chance of "working a new one" this weekend.

Don't forget, he's working split...