[ADXA] Leaderboards ARE big to the top 10 every DXpedition. We know who they are.

[HamOP]

(1) If I had your antennas and know how and when and where to call, guess I would be trying to kick butt against the east and west coast too. Calling way too long with a weenie signal like mine is tiresome to a 77 year old. But I do try, and that is what ALL need to do but some don’t.
(2) Addictions are different for each person. Carry on, you do well in pileups for sure. The Leaderboards do tell us who the real big guns are, always see the same guys. Just wonder how many weenies would like just one ATNO but get nowhere the first 4-5 days til the top guys get their 20-24 band modes.. I lean towards not taking up a slot that someone else needs. But being a weenie, I guess I don’t knock them out of a QSO anyway. HI HI   
(3) Agree with listen and chase scenario for the most part. More need to do that. The ADXA has become more competitive and more members chase DX now. That is good. Following your advice helps them. Keep the “pushing” alive El Presidente. The only thing I have going for me is knowing when and where to call, but unfortunately a signal is required! LOL
TU ……..
San

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From: w5zn at w5zn.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 1:34 PM
To: adxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ADXA] Starting today, only chasing needed B/M

QSL San.
I couldn't care less about the "Leader Board". That doesn't interest or attract me in the least. What I am addicted to, however, is a pileup. I just can't stay out of one. I don't care who it is, where they are or how many times I have worked other DXPeditions in that country.....I've gotta get in there and kick some east coast butt, walk over a W6 and just plain humiliate them from W5 land! I just can't resist doing that.
If you're a weenie DX'er you need to learn how to be a smarter op than me and beat me in the pileups!!  :-))
Do NOT recommend therapy for me or saddle up a posse of ADXA folks for one of those "interventions", just stay out of my way!! I'm a ham with an addiction!!!   :-))))
It is a contagious disease and some of you other ADXA folks have contracted it. You know who you are so my advice to you is, "Party on Garth!" (That's Wayne's World speak for "GET ON AIR AND WORK THEM!)
73, Dr. ZN

On 2019-03-12 10:02, HamOP wrote:
Today I have made a decision based on review of my QSL confirmations from DXpeditions dating back years ago. I no longer will get in a pileup for the sake of chasing DX per se. Others need a better shot at the DX and not be CW or SSB splattered/clobbered by a local AR/MO station.
 
Too many ADXA members are in the same pileups I have been in chasing the 7P8 and XR0, and I feel badly that maybe I will be calling near by or helping create a bigger pileup than needed. An ADXA member needing the station for an ATNO is more important than my watching a leaderboard. I have almost all band/modes confirmed for XR0 (2016 trip) and 7P8 (2016) - RTTY/SSB/CW - and will only call if I need an isolated B/M..  But for sure, I will call on 160m IF I hear them, since ATNO for me. This is my new policy. So on RTTY, CW and SSB I will only be calling for an ATNO of some sort. 
San K5YY  
 
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