[ADXA] Too much DX!

Tue Dec 12 09:20:19 EST 2023

 Where oh Where are you tonight?Why did you leave me here all alone?I searched 160 over and thought I found VU6...You went QRT and PFFFT you were gone...
Sorry I couldn't resist...
Dennis W5DM
    On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 08:08:19 AM CST, <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:  

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SADLY !!!!!!!!  

And Hall & Oates are still fighting over her !!   😊

From: Ken Personal <kmills5109 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 8:06 AM
To: w5znjoel at gmail.com
Cc: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ADXA] Too much DX!

Another song title comes to mind with VU7A … She’s Gone … 

Have a fun day, 73

Kenny

On Dec 12, 2023, at 7:59 AM, w5znjoel at gmail.com wrote:

Dennis – when I saw the Subject line “Too Much DX” it reminded to the 1980’s song by Styx “Too Much Time on My Hands”. I don’t have too much time on my hands but there is definitely too much DX on our hands to keep up with, as you note, but that’s a good thing!!!!

Congrats on continuing to knock off some new band countries (I just can’t call them “entities”!!!).

I would love to work VU7 on 160 also. Only band I need it on and it would not only be a new one, it would be my last Zone, 22, on 160. Doesn’t look like it will happen though.

GL and as another song goes “Keep on Truckin’ Baby” !!!

ZN

From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Dennis Schaefer
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 11:00 AM
To: ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [ADXA] Too much DX!

There are so many DXpeditions that I can’t keep up.  I’ve taken up smoking and my heart rate is usually about 120 due to pounding down so much coffee and Red Bull.  Joel said nice things about me and that put even more pressure on!  

Well, i’ve been known to exaggerate….   Thanks, Joel, for the kind words.  I’ve gotten a lot of new counters from the DXpeditions, and pick up other new ones from time to time.  I got an HK3 on 30M last night and it was a counter.  It was an HK and it was on FT8 - whatever it takes to add to the count, which is now 1356 with a bunch of OQRS to come when current expeditions close out.   That’s not bad, considering that my goal was 1300 by the end of the year and 1400 by the end of 2024.

I’m not sure I’m smart enough for FT8, though.  I have smart friends, and they give good advice, but I still ponder sometimes whether to turn F/H on.  Some of the expeditions say they will be 100% multi stream yet it occasionally seems necessary to use F/H to get a response.  

I’ve worked VU7M on 30 and 40.  I called them for an hour or so on 20 with no response.  There were traces on the waterfall on 20 but some sequences did not decode due to flutter.  I didn’t need it on 20, so I didn’t try too hard.  However, I see on the online log that I have 3 contacts on 20!  It is easy to believe that he came back to me one or more times, but I never sent him an R-xx response at any time on 20 because I never copied him coming back to me.  This seems to be an integrity issue with software in use.  

VU7M seems to be one guy running four digital stations.  Have you seen the picture with the four stations, all with amps, piled on one table?   Obviously they are automated.  I guess you need lots of coffee and a strong table.  

T32TT is running 10 stations with two guys on site - sigh.  Times are changing.  At least T32TT is doing a little CW.

73,

Dennis/RZ

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