Jim,

I've noticed the same thing.  Even on CW, as you mentioned, I hear the pile 
ups spreading out to ridiculous sizes as far as width is concerned.  I have 
noted lots of guys punching up the auto send button for their call and 
having trouble answering if the DX is QRQ.  So it is interested how styles 
change over the years.

Phil.
K0NX




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From: "Jim Shaffer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 5:41 PM
Subject: DX pileups


> It seems lately the DX pileups have just been getting out of hand.  Now
> there's some DX station on 14.045, and he has a pileup about 10 khz wide,
> which includes of course the W1AW service.  It seems to me the DX 
> community
> needs to have some sort of gentleman's agreement, at least on cw, to keep
> the pileups to 2 khz wide or so.  They shouldn't be taking up as much of 
> the
> band as they do.  Also, they should stick lower in the band to avoid
> interfering with W1AW at least.
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> Jim Shaffer, ke5al
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