…now back in my day.
Here’s a perfect example of an old-hand attempting to weigh judgement on a younger-hand for doing things differently, and therefore, ignoring this “new” way of doing things, simply because “we did it this way back in the day.” This type of mentality KILLS participation. It’s a good thing that I am used to assholes like this, and I have the intestinal fortitude to tell them to go get bent.
I was operating from my /A lternate QTH this past weekend, Dec 30 – Jan 1 2017. I was band jumping, trying to make several contacts when I found 17m to be open. K7MX was calling CQ on 18.146 when I tried to get back with him. Once I had put out my callsign, wv0cq/a, he began questioning why I was using it, explaining to me what stroke-whatever meant (to him), how they did it back in his day. I explained my situation with having two totally different “homes” with permanently affixed antenna systems and shacks and that it is common in Europe to use the /a as a designation for an alternative QTH. He didn’t like this. He told me that “back in the day, they would use /8 or portable…”, neither of which is accurate. Neither of which really tells the tale of where you are.
If you go to QRZ and lookup “wv0cq/a”, you will see an accurate address and QSL card for my alternate QTH. Portable8, /8 or anything else would not be accurate [all the time] because I could be portable anywhere. My /a is a fixed location. It is not portable. It should not be considered proper to use [just] my callsign without a modifier because that callsign is licensed for my home (permanent residence) QTH, not my alternate QTH.
Lemme tell ya something, before you go off judging other hams and making an ass of yourself, perhaps you might want to consider treating people with a little more respect. I don’t much give a rat’s ass how many decades you’ve been in this hobby, if you’re doing something wrong, no matter how many times you do it wrong, it won’t be correct.
Here’s some links for the lids in the amateur community, who usually turn out to be “old hands” with 30+ years of “experience”, that, in their minds, cannot do any wrong, that are too lazy to actually stay in touch with what’s happening in the amateur radio community and the changes that are going on (without their acceptance none-the-less).
