[ADXA] Ready for DX

[w5znjoel at gmail.com]

Greetings ADXA Folks,

 

I trust everyone had a pleasant and merry Christmas. 

 

I'm quite confident you ADXA folks are tired of hearing me ask if you're
ready, and telling you to get ready, for upcoming DX. Regardless, if you're
in the BIG DOG game of DX it is a very valid question and relevant topic.
Remember "You can't run with the BIG DOGS if you pee like a puppy!"

 

We had quite a bit of DX activity back in late September and October but
things went flat the past several weeks however, if you look at the next two
months there will be three top 35 most needed by ADXA members coming on the
air; VU7, KP5, and 3Y. 

 

Don't have a Yagi or your Yagi is broken or on the ground? Throw up a
dipole!! Don't have a tall tower? Look at what Lanny works without one. We
sometimes forget, or don't know, how to be a good and efficient operator in
a DX pileup falling prey to the thought you can't be successful unless you
have a great big tower and beam. I worked over 315 countries on 30, 17, and
12 meters with dipoles before I ever had a Yagi on those bands. K5UR's 80
and 40 meter antennas are simple wire antennas! Don't believe you can work
DX with simple wire antennas? OK, just go ahead and keep believing that
myth. Operator skill still plays significantly into success and some of that
skill has been lost in the world of FT8 - I'm sure that statement is
offensive to some of you but it's a fact and you still need good operating
skill to be successful on FT8! Operator skill involves MUCH more than
clicking a button on a computer screen with your mouse.

 

With the major DXpeditions forthcoming, are you ready? You should be but if
not, what are you doing to get ready?? If you have outstanding items on your
to-do list work them down now. We want to see these three "Top 35 ADXA Most
Needed" drop down the list significantly.

 

Get ready and GET IN THERE!!!

 

73 Joel W5ZN

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