[ADXA] Ready for DX

[Steven Rutledge]

I'm ready Joel.  Activity has been very flat for the past two weeks or 
month.  Looking forward to some of these operations. Fortunately, or 
unfortunately, the only thing I need from XF4 is a digital contact.  
Thanks for the motivational message.

73,

Steve, N4JQQ

On 12/26/2025 7:22 AM, w5znjoel at gmail.com wrote:
>
> 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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