Deliberate QRM or just not hearing me?
I was minding my own business last night working a bit of 20m RTTY. Conditions weren’t great and the band wasn’t particularly busy but there were a few stations in QSO as I tuned across the RTTY sub-band between 14.080 and 14.100MHz, all of them within Europe.
I found myself what appeared to be a clear spot up around 14.092MHz and sent the usual ‘QRL QRL ??? DE G0RIF BK‘ a time or three to see if anyone was using the frequency. On getting no reply I set about calling CQ to see who I could work.
I worked a few stations and had just cleared the last of those when I saw in the decode window ‘DE RA1DIO RA1DIO RA1DIO PSE K‘ (NB: RA1DIO is not the actual callsign of the Russian station in question). As this was spot-on my calling frequency I took this to be a tail end call so I sent a quick RST/NAME/QTH transmission and waited for his reply…which never came.
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