this can happen to anybody right by accident even a 10 watt station so running a pile up
it is quite an interesting uh well for accurate start off we need to work out
what's the definition of a pile up so i would say more than two or three people calling you
for more than one over if you know what i mean or one contact
there is a this can happen to anybody right by accident even a 10 watt station you can uh call
cq it happens to be a really nice spot frequency perhaps there was a dxr on there 10 minutes ago
and that frequency is on the cluster conditions are just perfect and you get three people calling
you okay or four people and maybe when you call qrz after it after you've had him there's still
four or five people there's a pile up there's a way of just calming yourself down and just
running that and there's a really simple technique to it but unfortunately i have to use my pad here
uh find a clean piece of paper we'll we'll go on the back of the hex beam
so you your call sign is m1abc all right and you call qrced n1 abc
and three or four people call you so that's the start of time time is going that way three or four
people calling you now what happens is they start calling so you end up with g one a b c calls there
i call you m zero m c x caused that in terms of time there's someone else there's a two e zero
a b c and just when you're about to key the microphone here you hear another guy right
g for a b c did you wait for him to finish before you key the microphone and which one are you gonna
pick because all you've heard so far is you heard a g1 and then he got obliterated by an
m's at the same time in the back of the set you also heard as a 2e0 calling you
you're pretty certain actually you might have heard an m7 a b c whoever right
you just about to key the microphone because you're about to say who's the g one please and
then goal four alpha bravo charlie really loud cause you there that's what i call the tail
and charlie technique would you actually give him the honors of knowing for a fact that when
people shout their call signs there's always this you know however many seconds there is
between calling before you get back to him or not i suggest as soon as you've heard the golf
one abc or any of these early people just because you can get his call sign in the log straight away
go to the early birds and i'll i'll tell you why because if you waited for g4 abc to finish
how do you not know there's a mic mic zero abc about to call here
and it gets to the point well how long do you want to wait before you get back to the pileup
so what i do and this is the easiest way i've found is that i give it this kind of standard
pile up duration standard pile up duration which i just made up i give it the standard spd
and then i call for one of these
and i do it like this so i start a key to microphone at this point even though he's
really loud i'm going to go over the top of him and i'm going to say i'll pick one of these let's
say i actually definitely hear there's two e0 in there all right i'll start saying here
and i go slightly longer than the standard pile up duration i say right i can hear a 2e0 there
at 2e0 please make your call the reason for doing that is if anybody decides
in the initial standard pull up duration to call again because he hears g4 abc now we go
we're still all going for it are we i'll go again m0 mcx
what happens is i make this slightly longer about 1.5 times longer than the standard pilot duration
so that by the time i finished saying who's the 2e02e0 please go ahead
make your call over the pileup's gone silent because they won't key the microphone because
they can hear me right so the pile up at this point in time definitely about there is silent
so even though i've keyed the microphone at this point in time i've got g4 abc calling
me i've got my zero abc calling me i've gone 1.5 times longer than the standard
pilot duration just made that up but you know what i mean no one is going to start talking when they
hear me so by the time i finished asking 2e0 to make their call the pile up silent i've heard
a couple of people as soon as you if you have a live stream or as i said i heard this guy with a
six foot above the ground loop all the way around his backyard garden on 80 meters he
couldn't believe it i think he was doing 50 watts or something and for some reason he was super
super loud and because he was super loud he just had a pileup and he did it really well i think he
used his standard pilot duration technique and he would just key the microphone even though there's
a bubble of stuff going on here there's a bubble of stuff going on but if you make this a little
bit longer than your standard pilot duration the pilot will be silent and the 2e0 will be
able to make his call that's it from callum i will see you next one all the best bye for now