[ADXA] DQRM, etc

[jayw5jay]

Dennis that feeling that you were talking about really affected me as well. I kept trying to tell everyone how much they meant to me over the years and kept coming up short. There's just not enough words to describe how much they mean to me. You included! You were one of my many Elmers and I sure enjoyed our one-on-one time.73 w5jay/jay..Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com> Date: 11/14/23  10:38 AM  (GMT-06:00) To: ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net> Subject: [ADXA] DQRM, etc 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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