[ADXA] DQRM, etc

[Dennis Schaefer]

I'm almost afraid to mention this, but does anyone else think the level of
Deliberate QRM is lower with these DXpeditions?   There have been so many
of them, that the misfits who do this may just be suffering from fatigue,
or perhaps there are so many DX signals on the air that the DQRM'ers aren't
great enough in numbers to cover them all.

4W8X may have another good answer.  In one of their bulletins, they said
their power level is "roughly twice what is allowed in the US".  Their
signals are tremendous and would be fairly immune to most DQRM.  4W8X also
has at least one, probably more, excellent CW operators.

I've worked TX7L on CW on 6 bands, SSB on 3 bands, and digital once, on 80
meters.

I have also noticed being logged several times on digital contacts.  7O73T
has me down for two contacts on 30M but my ONE and only one contact with
him was pretty straightforward.  I guess it doesn't matter - two is better
than zero, if you're going to have a strange QSO count.

I can't even begin to describe how great the convention was!  I think
everyone left with the feeling that this was something special.  Even
though my recurrent vertigo came back and was an aggravation, I had a
wonderful time.  Many thanks to Joel, and all the others who did the work
to make it happen.  Adrian has the true ham spirit.  His story about
practicing putting the tribander together in the snow for 3Y was evidence
of that.

10 new band counters added since the end of the BIC period, but the
DXpeditions make that easy.   Challenge total is 1274.  1300 by year's end!!
73,
Dennis/RZ
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