Little Man Syndrome

Do some of ya’ll have “Little Man Syndrome”, aka “Little Dick Syndrome”???

Why would I ask?

I am a pattern recognition person. I notice patterns that most people don’t see. Something I’ve noticed, there’s a large number of FT8 users that fail to complete a QSO after receiving a much lower db signal report than they gave. Maybe I am seeing ghosts, but it’s become a pattern, and I have noticed it. There’s little chance that I’ll ever unsee it.

Therefore, those of you that fail to complete the QSO after sending me a +7 and receiving a -17 from me, will be hereby regarded as having the Little Dick Syndrome.

Yes, I take into account all of the other variables involved in receiving a signal. Yes, including being covered up by someone else. Many times this happens on a band that’s currently not saturated with operators, sometimes it’s just a few folks on the band. Yes, I move my signal to open slots.

And finally, I see them on PSKReporter, reporting that they’ve seen me in the last few minutes, and it updates accordingly.

Little Dick Syndrome, yeah, you betcha!

N8GB