£100 offered for the jammers identities!

So a couple of weeks on from the reappearance of DY and the abuse has also returned. A few individuals have been repeatedly targeted, and very personal comments made where sometimes even family members are mentioned.

One fiery-tempered operator from Sutton-in-Ashfield seems to find it absolutely impossible to ignore the idiots and responds every single time with his own abuse and threats of intimidation, violence, murder, etc. He has announced his own address and mobile telephone number on countless occasions challenging the abusers to go to his house. He was heard last week offering £100 to anybody who can give him a definite address of who has been continually goading him and asserts that when he finds out where his nemesis lives he will go round and commit various acts of violence upon their person. This kind of behaviour is of course no better than the abuse and just as illegal.

One name in particular and a location of Ironville, Derbyshire have been repeatedly mentioned, however once again it seems like sheer speculation as no actual evidence to support this was presented, just the usual claims of "we know it's him", "I recognise his voice", etc. In spite of the obvious fact to anybody listening that there are several abusers, not one.

To close it seems very appropriate to once again state that: WE ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CONDONE lynch-mob type behaviour or the carrying out of violence on suspected perpetrators as often those suspected are not really responsible.

73,
The Observer

GB3DY has returned once again!

So finally DY is back and it is fantastic to hear it once again alive and in use. It appears so far that the levels of abuse are right down at a minimum compared to the pandemonium occurring just before the repeaters 2-month long hiatus. Although there has been a number of whispering wallies making appearances however, they have been mostly benign and their comments only mildly annoying in sharp contrast to the vicious bile-filled rhetoric that was spewing forth previously.

This afternoon did have an incident of note where several of these whispering weirdoes were present. They were exchanging sounds and comments when one of them repeatedly mentioned a name and address, there was a short pause then another voice mentioned a different name and address and also a callsign. Presumably they were revealing each others identities to provoke the other into retaliation but everything soon went quiet again.

Just to re-iterate a previous point and to echo the advice given by the licensing authority, if people can withhold from commenting or replying to these minor disturbances (notwithstanding it is in fact a breach of your licence to engage with an unidentified station) then it is likely they will get bored and go away. On the whole since it's re-establishment the repeater has been used properly and the QSO's have been pleasant to listen to. Many thanks to the repeater group and let's hope it continues in a positive direction.

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The Observer