[DX] Re: [dx-list] GREAT NEWS

[aluscre]

Two great sites if you need a DXing  laugh:

http://www.qsl.net/dl4tt/DawgX-rayClub.html

http://www.nolizards.org/

John Geiger wrote:

> WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ONLY CALLING WITH YOUR LAST TWO
> LETTERS?  I have never understood this-how your last
> two letters increase the likelihood of you being heard
> relative to your whole callsign.  It seems to me that
> to be heard, at least part of your callsign has to be
> heard over the rest of the hoard-it doesn't matter
> whether that is your prefix, number plus one letter,
> or last two letters.
>
> Am I wrong on this?  Is there something magical about
> the last two letters of a call that allows that audio
> to transcend the ether better than any other part of
> the call.  Is that why I sometimes don't get through
> when I use my entire callsign.  Is there a physicist
> out there who can confirm or deny the acoustical
> properties of the last two letters versus the entire
> call (or at least the prefix).
>
> Along a related line-what is the point of calling the
> DX station when he is replying to another station.  He
> probably cannot hear while he is transmitting, so how
> can he hear your call?  I am usually tuning to find
> the station that he is working-figuring that is where
> he is listening.
>
> I guess I have been doing it wrong all along.  That is
> why I only have 293 worked instead of being on the
> honor roll-if only I had recognized the error of my
> ways before-I might have worked the South Sandwich
> group last month.
>
> 73s John NE0P
>
> p.s see you in the Ducie piles, I will be shouting my
> last two while the DX station is transmitting
> --- Ali Bubba <na1i@portone.com> wrote:
> > Stu,
> > Thanks for the post, what pleases me even more is
> > their request as
> > listed in #3. The devout KNETKNIKS will have to do
> > appropriate penance
> > to shed their souls of these transgressions of the
> > lass-too club.
> >
> > 3. They are asking everyone  calling on phone to use
> > their  full call
> > signs
> > and NOT THE LAST  TWO  LETTERS.
> > --
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