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So many people are sandbagging.
If everyone's turning the channel selector listening for another station no one's ever going to hear anybody.
I'm lucky enough to live in a part of New Jersey that has lots of locals. And close enough to Philadelphia and its surrounding areas which has even more 11 meter operators then there are in my area.
I'm not shy. When I flip the channel selector I know which channels to stop at and give a quick break or Shout knowing that there's a good chance someone is sandbagging.
That's probably the best way to find out if anyone's on a particular Channel. I think I watched a YouTube clip about the same thing happening on the ham bands. People turn their vfo's and if they don't hear anybody immediately assume nobody's there, and move on to the next frequency or band without throwing their call sign out. As I mentioned above if everyone does that without keying up the microphone and breaking even of no one's there no body will ever know whether there's another person sitting in their shack waiting for someone else to key the microphone and let themselves be known. 73

<blockquote data-quote="Sonar" data-source="post: 620006" data-attributes="member: 47153">So many people are sandbagging.If everyone&#039;s turning the channel selector listening for another station no one&#039;s ever going to hear anybody.I&#039;m lucky enough to live in a part of New Jersey that has lots of locals. And close enough to Philadelphia and its surrounding areas which has even more 11 meter operators then there are in my area.I&#039;m not shy. When I flip the channel selector I know which channels to stop at and give a quick break or Shout knowing that there&#039;s a good chance someone is sandbagging.That&#039;s probably the best way to find out if anyone&#039;s on a particular Channel. I think I watched a YouTube clip about the same thing happening on the ham bands. People turn their vfo&#039;s and if they don&#039;t hear anybody immediately assume nobody&#039;s there, and move on to the next frequency or band without throwing their call sign out. As I mentioned above if everyone does that without keying up the microphone and breaking even of no one&#039;s there no body will ever know whether there&#039;s another person sitting in their shack waiting for someone else to key the microphone and let themselves be known. 73</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sonar, post: 620006, member: 47153"] So many people are sandbagging. If everyone's turning the channel selector listening for another station no one's ever going to hear anybody. I'm lucky enough to live in a part of New Jersey that has lots of locals. And close enough to Philadelphia and its surrounding areas which has even more 11 meter operators then there are in my area. I'm not shy. When I flip the channel selector I know which channels to stop at and give a quick break or Shout knowing that there's a good chance someone is sandbagging. That's probably the best way to find out if anyone's on a particular Channel. I think I watched a YouTube clip about the same thing happening on the ham bands. People turn their vfo's and if they don't hear anybody immediately assume nobody's there, and move on to the next frequency or band without throwing their call sign out. As I mentioned above if everyone does that without keying up the microphone and breaking even of no one's there no body will ever know whether there's another person sitting in their shack waiting for someone else to key the microphone and let themselves be known. 73 [/QUOTE]

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