Greetings ADXA Folks,

Just like Santa Claus, DX is EVERYWHERE!!!!! And even though some may believe Santa is not real, no one can deny that DX IS !!!!

If you have been sleeping, lazy, or maybe away for business or pleasure and have not worked TY0RU you still have a couple of more days. The pileups have been worked down and pretty much gone and TY0RU is calling CQ, begging for a response.

The next five weeks between now and Thanksgiving has some real juicy DXpeditions coming up. P29RO, VK9CM, 5V7RU, J28MD, and TL8AA. A couple of these are in the ADXA top 100 and one in the ADXA top 50. To say it is very exciting to once again have DXpeditions occurring all over is an understatement. The only one I need of these is VK9CM on 160 meters but they aren't planing any 160 meter activity. Top band conditions are poor right now anyway but as you know 12 and 10 meters have been RED HOT!!! Regardless of whether I need any of these you know I'm addicted to a pile up and can't keep away. I must jump in and from seeing all of the ADXA posts on our reflector and peeking at the log search to see how all of you are doing I'd say you suffer from the same addiction!

HEY!!!! this is why we follow this passion. Its not a "game", it is a passion that makes us all feel really good by communicating with a short wave station on the other side of the world with a small shortwave station we assembled and operate ourselves. Oh sure, we have folks tell us there is no joy in that as we can whip out a cell phone and call someone over there. That's right, all you do is pay money for a commercial service you put no effort into. But to quote one of my favorite bands, the Beatles - "CAN'T BUY ME LOVE!"

So, with all of these DXpeditions forthcoming that some of you need for a new one and some of us just need to feed our addiction, to quote Mr. Spock, "Go forth and prosper" but by all means GET IN THERE AND WORK 'EM!

73 Joel W5ZN