[Dx-qsl] ST0R dupe activity

[Peter W2IRT]

-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of DANNY DOUGLAS
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:22 PM
To: Ken Scheper; DX QSL Posts
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] ST0R dupe activity

[QUOTE]  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.


[pjd] Who the heck are you to tell anybody what they "need." For DXCC
accreditation and certification you are correct. but some of us are in it
for more than paper. We've built our stations to be the best they can be. We
test them out by trying to work every band and every mode possible. We get a
thrill by cutting through the pileups and getting in the log. Don't like it?
Don't do it. If you can't beat me in a pileup go build a better station, buy
a hefty amp or learn to operate in ways that may yield better success. Be
there when the DX is just firing up on a published frequency. For a
DXpedition that's going on this long, with so many good operators, if you
can't get in the log once per mode (at the very least) you're just not a
good operator or your time-budgeting is such that you have more important
things to do than work DX.

They are loud and they are easy at least 3-4 hours a day to the east coast
on 17, 20 and 40. For other less-good regions they've spent hours calling
for those areas only. They've been loud and easy on 15 and 12 if you were
there at the right times, too. The only way someone with a "lesser-equipped
station" will fail to be in the log is if they don't turn on the radio and
give it even a half-hearted try. We're, what, 10 or so days in and I've
heard them begging a few times and many others working anybody who called
with no pile more than 1 or 2 deep.

This goes for any major international DXpedition with 4 or 5 or more
stations QRV at any one time. By day 4 or day 5 they're easy. By the second
week they're begging on 20 and 17 phone. Some of us like to test the limits
of propagation by bagging them on 10 CW *and* 10 SSB *and* 10 RTTY. One is
easy, one is considerably harder, one is harder-still. Ditto 160 CW vs 160
SSB, and everything in between.

</rant>