[Dx-qsl] VP8THU OPERATION

[Dave Raycroft]

CW on all bands was a fiasco. The so called "police" were lids. Heard more
UP's than VP8THU. Every time I made a call for VP8THU, and went back to
receive, all that was heard were a bunch of "police". Never really did know
if VP8THU came back to me or not. In 35 years of hamming, I have never heard
anything this insane. VP8THU was running low power and using simple wire
antennas for their operation. South Sandwich would probably have been a
better DXpedition if it were not for all the lids, and especially the
"police". I still have UP .. UP .. ringing in my ears. No problems working
Gus Browning when he was QRV from the Indian Ocean, running low power, 419
signal into VE land, back in the late 60's. In those days, there were no
"police" lids guarding the frequency (or should I say QRMing the frequency).


Robert C De Grippo wrote:
I want to disagree about the SSB in this case VP8 and in my case...

I heard VP8 on 20 CW the first nite they were on........the LIDS, POLICE etc
as you described were out in force.


ATanner283@aol.com wrote:
>
>  This has been a ruff DXpedition I think. The propagation for us in Ohio
> (others too) was down. At least when I got the chance to get on. The
jammers,
> cops, name callers, super hams, idiots, on freq. conversationalists, tuner
> uppers, call bootleggers, ditters, and assorted chaff seemed to be in
excess
> this time around. It seems a shame that DX has to be this way.  It's not
just on SSB either,
> although much more popular there.    Sorry...........just
> irritated...........................Al/W8FAX