Solo 14: What is it about Mooney drivers?

Total Time: 59.3
PIC time logged this flight: 1.4
Landings: 188

Weather and an ill flight instructor have conspired to cancel several recent opportunities to wrap up the rest of my flight requirements. I hadn't flown in five days, and so withdrawal was setting in. I decided to stay in the pattern today and practice short/soft field takeoff and landings. Visibility was down around 6 miles, and rain was in the area thanks to a stubborn upper level low pressure system.

I ended up logging 10 more landings, three of which were greasers (the first time I've managed something close to perfect since my first solo). The pattern was pretty empty, and I was sharing the frequency with two familiar voices at airports many miles from Mettetal. I think some day I will just have to fly to Suburban and Ray Community just to take a trip around the pattern once or twice.

It felt good to get up in the air, and I used the time to experiment with the two most popular methods for descent for landing...

1) carb heat and power reduction abeam the numbers, flaps 10, start descent abeam the numbers (my instructor's technique)

2) maintain pattern altitude until turning base, carb heat, reduce power, flaps 20, turn base (the other technique)

What about the post title? There are plenty of examples I could give of poor radio technique, with people flying all sorts of different aircraft. The guy today happened to be flying a Mooney, and he made all of 2 radio calls from the time he was "4 miles south" (his first radio call) to the time he was "entering downwind" (his second radio call, as he crossed over the field at pattern altitude) and I never heard from him again! Not as I watched him turn base, turn final, and exit the runway. Oh well.