[Dx-qsl] ST0R dupe activity

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

It is probably a waste of time, telling those guys.  I heard some B4s being 
sent an hour after the operation started.  Their web page also has a number 
of other instructions, which these guys refuse to follow: such as "do not 
request QSYs or change of Modes", they say right in their news that they do 
not have internet operational (meaning during on-air operation positions), 
etc.  They also talk about split operation, yet there are some they seem to 
not know what split even is.  I have referred several of them to my qrz.com 
page, but doubt they would understand it either.  We all make mistakes, in 
ocassionally calling on their freq, espcially if like me they do not have 
two receivers built into their gear, and are flopping back and forth looking 
for a freq to call on.  But to call and call and call,ignoring the cops and 
normal DX operation, well what can one say?

Some will agree and many wont, but this thing of telling us, on their web 
page, how many mode bands people have, has ruined it for the little guy. 
Early on, I checked their stats and found many Europeans with 22 band modes, 
and several stateside with 17.  One needs only one contact per band, and 
within that, just three modes.  Not three contacts on each band, with all 
three modes, but there you have it.  Like mad dogs, we fight.  It leaves 
many, at the end of the expedition, with NO contacts at all, and others 
without one or more modes.  Ham radio used to be manned by people who 
believed in the golden rule, today it is "Do unto others, before they can do 
it unto you".   That is a shame.
Danny Douglas
N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
All 2 years or more (except Novice). Short stints at:  DA/PA/SU/HZ/7X/DU
CR9/7Y/KH7/5A/GW/GM/F
Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred,
I Do not use, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for those who do.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Scheper" <kenshep at one.net>
To: "DX QSL Posts" <DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 5:58 PM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] ST0R dupe activity


> Today on 15 cw, the ops were frequently coming back with "b4" for dupe 
> QSO's.  Please don't waste their time for QSO's that had been logged 
> earlier.  Check their on-line log to see if you're there.  The most you 
> wait is 24 hours for QSO's to post, and often MUCH less.
>
> Good hunting !!!
> 73
> Ken
> WA8JOC
>
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