[Dx-qsl] ST0R dupe activity

[Sante - IK0HBN]

Hi all,
I agree with you both! Making useless dupes, surely does not help who 
need a qso with them, but improving station capabilities is surely a must.
Due to a lot of life troubles, in this period I left myself with only 
the big pole for topband and a dipole cut for 80 CW. Being in 
holiday, I spent a lot of days cutting dipoles to be connected to 
only 2 coax lines for the rimanent  other 7 bands and trying to leave 
them working together. Surely that prevented me to take some days on 
the beach, but as stated in your message, radio, as well as life 
forced us to a choice every day we live.

For what concerned strictly to dupes, I emailed to ZD8D guys noticing 
them that there were band errors in Clublog (I was right) and asking 
why my 80 SSB qso there wasn't on Clublog, before trying to make 
another contact, taking away the chance of doing that to another ham.
My 0,2 cent
73s
Sante


At 02.53 05/08/2011, you wrote:
>-----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>
>
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