I was first licensed in 1955 as KN6LSL.  I received N0KOE when I moved to Denver, Colorado in 1986.  When I retired from United Airlines in 1997, I moved to North Carolina.  For one reason or another, I was off the air until late last year.  My comments today pertain not only to  the ARRL International DX SSB contest, but all contests I have participated in since then. I can recall very few online etiquette incidents in the contests before 1997, but it seems that many of those in our wonderful hobby should read the etiquette rules of operating, if anything of that exists. First of all are those hams who insist on going to a frequency of a desired contact, then spend the next 45-60 seconds tuning up directly on top of that station.  Yikes !!! Then, those insist on shouting out their call when the desired station has ask for a certain specific call to come back.  He asks for "W8AXX" to repeat his call and there are a multitude of other calls shouted out. I have heard many desired stations finally get desperate and tell everyone to be quiet until he finally succeeds with the W8.  I will step off the soapbox at this point.  I am 74 years old; so perhaps these are just the musings of grouchy old fart, but I believe that our hobby needs a great deal of etiquette training.  It certainly has gone downhill since the "old Days" Thanks for letting me vent

Howard Campbell

N0KOE - Traphill, NC