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I agree with some of the previous posts. Some times I think Fred is his own worst enemy. As my user name says, I work qrp most of the time and one evening while monitoring 80 meters I stumbled across the Marconi net. I was hearing quite a few of the stations so I figured I'd give it a shot and try to check in. Well, Fred barely made out my callsign and a fellow from Northern Virginia was relaying for me. Fred asked about my station, and when I told him I was running 5 watts to a G5RV at 20 ft, he went off into a tirade about how qrp on 80 meters and inefficient compromise antenna systems were a waste of time. He also had already looked me up on QRZ and saw that I had a 100 watt radio and asked why I wasn't using that! I checked out of the net and decided that I would try my other rig the next night. I also joined his Marconi net YAHOO group. The next night I checked in at 100 watts and Fred heard me , but said I was still weak and made some snotty remark about the G5RV again. Several of the other stations chimed in and said that they could here me just fine and that some of them we also using G5RV's. Well that was all it took and he launched into another lecture about inefficient antennas and he wasn't going to go into it again. That was it for me, I Told Fred I was going QRT and never bothered to check in again. I don't agree with the people that Jam the net on a daily basis, but I have to say that Fred brings on much of it by his attitude. He is supposed to be the net control station, but wil leave everyone hanging while he gets into an extended shouting match with the jammers after not minutes before telling the net participants not to acknowledge the jammers. So I'll say farewell Fred and I leave you to your own devices.

<blockquote data-quote="QRPGUY" data-source="post: 218658" data-attributes="member: 14324">I&#039;ve tried!I agree with some of the previous posts. Some times I think Fred is his own worst enemy. As my user name says, I work qrp most of the time and one evening while monitoring 80 meters I stumbled across the Marconi net. I was hearing quite a few of the stations so I figured I&#039;d give it a shot and try to check in. Well, Fred barely made out my callsign and a fellow from Northern Virginia was relaying for me. Fred asked about my station, and when I told him I was running 5 watts to a G5RV at 20 ft, he went off into a tirade about how qrp on 80 meters and inefficient compromise antenna systems were a waste of time. He also had already looked me up on QRZ and saw that I had a 100 watt radio and asked why I wasn&#039;t using that! I checked out of the net and decided that I would try my other rig the next night. I also joined his Marconi net YAHOO group. The next night I checked in at 100 watts and Fred heard me , but said I was still weak and made some snotty remark about the G5RV again. Several of the other stations chimed in and said that they could here me just fine and that some of them we also using G5RV&#039;s. Well that was all it took and he launched into another lecture about inefficient antennas and he wasn&#039;t going to go into it again. That was it for me, I Told Fred I was going QRT and never bothered to check in again. I don&#039;t agree with the people that Jam the net on a daily basis, but I have to say that Fred brings on much of it by his attitude. He is supposed to be the net control station, but wil leave everyone hanging while he gets into an extended shouting match with the jammers after not minutes before telling the net participants not to acknowledge the jammers. So I&#039;ll say farewell Fred and I leave you to your own devices.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":thumbup1:" title="Thumbs Up&nbsp; &nbsp; :thumbup1:"&nbsp; data-smilie="27"data-shortname=":thumbup1:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="QRPGUY, post: 218658, member: 14324"] [b]I've tried![/b] I agree with some of the previous posts. Some times I think Fred is his own worst enemy. As my user name says, I work qrp most of the time and one evening while monitoring 80 meters I stumbled across the Marconi net. I was hearing quite a few of the stations so I figured I'd give it a shot and try to check in. Well, Fred barely made out my callsign and a fellow from Northern Virginia was relaying for me. Fred asked about my station, and when I told him I was running 5 watts to a G5RV at 20 ft, he went off into a tirade about how qrp on 80 meters and inefficient compromise antenna systems were a waste of time. He also had already looked me up on QRZ and saw that I had a 100 watt radio and asked why I wasn't using that! I checked out of the net and decided that I would try my other rig the next night. I also joined his Marconi net YAHOO group. The next night I checked in at 100 watts and Fred heard me , but said I was still weak and made some snotty remark about the G5RV again. Several of the other stations chimed in and said that they could here me just fine and that some of them we also using G5RV's. Well that was all it took and he launched into another lecture about inefficient antennas and he wasn't going to go into it again. That was it for me, I Told Fred I was going QRT and never bothered to check in again. I don't agree with the people that Jam the net on a daily basis, but I have to say that Fred brings on much of it by his attitude. He is supposed to be the net control station, but wil leave everyone hanging while he gets into an extended shouting match with the jammers after not minutes before telling the net participants not to acknowledge the jammers. So I'll say farewell Fred and I leave you to your own devices.:thumbup1: [/QUOTE]

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