He's working split operation which means he is speaking on one frequency and listening on another. He's now listening five kHz up.
The operator is doing his job properly ending practically every contact with "Listening 5 up." On top of that every so often he explains how it works.
Yet there seems to be no shortage of idiots that either don't listen or don't seem to understand how split operation works and as soon as they hear the station give his call they throw their on top of it.
This often screws things up to a fare-thee-well and in many cases causes a station to have to rework the DX station.
Then you have the 'DX Police' which are self-appointed helpers and tell the idiot he's working split. Sometimes they are worse than the idiots. Sometimes they do a good job.
Working a split puts the pileup seperate from the transmitting frequency because when a pileup gets too damned big it gets too chaotic with everyone and their cousin jumping in and walking on the DX station...especially a rare DX station.
As I sit here things are going along pretty smoothly which is a change. There is a whistle of some sort in the background which is an annoyance. It's possibly some jerk maliciously trying to spoil it for everyone else.
Anyway, as usual the problems with splits are simply that people panic and don't bother to pay attention to Rule One. Listen, listen and listen first. Figure out what's going on and then act.
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Update.
I got that stupid atomic clock set to UTC finally. It reset itself to where I wanted it to and is now where it belongs. I knew if I fiddled with it long enough I'd get it squared away.
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