Sunday, I made a bunch of CW contacts and then decided to listen to some phone contacts while I played around with some projects. So, I puttered around and listened to a few QSOs.
After about a half hour or so, I hear a PA stations calling CQ. He had a nice signal in here, so I figured I could work him easily enough, and called back. We gave each other 57 reports and proceeded to have a nice contact.
About ten or fifteen minutes into the contact, though, I hear someone calling CQ on the frequency. The signal wasn’t very strong, though, so I couldn’t really make out the call. The QRM was worse for the other station, though, and he asked if I heard the QRM.
I listened a little more intently, and what was happening, is that someone had recorded the first station calling CQ and was replaying the recording on the air. I was dumbfounded. My friend explained that for some reason some guys had taken a dislike to him, and quite often when he got on 40m, they would maliciously interfere with him.
He wasn’t so concerned about the interference to his operations, but was worried that someone might report this to the FCC, and that he’d get some kind of warning or citation. I said that he should report this to the Official Observers in his state, but he seemed reluctant to do this. I still think that this is the best approach, though. That way, if he really was cited, he could counter that it wasn’t him, rather someone falsely using his callsign.
I’m still dumbfounded by this. I just can’t understand why they feel the need to mess with this guy.
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