Monday, March 19, 2012

Radio etiquette....yes we heard that.

Listening to a local repeater today I overheard a couple of operators chewing the rag about the usual, traffic, weather their jobs etc. This evolved into a discussion about outsourcing or offshoring when one of the operators responded to the other with a very poor imitation of, as he described later "china man" accent to which the other operator began parroting his remarks and accent.

Offensive?

I think so and here's why I think so, as a HAM you don't know who is listening to your repeater traffic and considering this particular repeater is connected to IRLP it's possible many others around the globe could have heard this conversation.

Based on this one could make the assumption that these operators are simply making a poor attempt at humor, but I think it's yet another example of poor operator etiquette.

Remember you really don't know who is listening and I hope the effort that people put into getting the Amateur Radio License isn't simply to get on the radio and exhibit poor etiquette and bad mouthing of others, but it seems that may not be the case here, then again perhaps I should have said something?

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1 comment:

  1. On the subject of etiquette, who is out of line, the operator that tells another operator that his signal is scratchy into the repeater and refuses to talk to him?

    Or the operator who may not live in the shadow of the nearest repeater and is trying to utilize his new ham license with his brand new treasured handy talkie?

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