[DX] Who Was It?

[Kevin Schavee]

What frequency?

You can not trust packet spots but if you haven't already you can use the DX
Summit search page and try those call sign prefixes for the band and
mode you were on. . Z5 and Z9 busted callsl.  ZL8X or ZD9T or a ZS maybe.
http://www.dxsummit.fi/Search.aspx

About packet spots..... Everyone (including myself at times) seems has
gotten complacent in trusing what is first spotted and many then go on to
post a spot for no other reason but to brag spot a QSO. I let myself work
several dupes in the PJ2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 frenzy that first night they came
up, due to bad/wrong packet spots. So many places and stations to work at
first it was hard to be patient to hang around to wait for them to send
there call. Nearly contest situation for new entities

 A good example is 6Y5WJ  spotted as a BY and then respotted as BY5WJ on
improbable bands at improbable times over and over.

All these bad spots makes one wonder how many op's are actually copying CW
anymore. (software copy or CW skimmers) what with no code exams. CW is not
PSK or RTTY copy!

 Your question sounds like something that'd happen on 160m,
First there to hear a faint CQ CQ so you figure you beat a pileup but not
able to get the call, he comes back to your call  and signal report but
never quite get his call and he's gone.... and  I've just had to let some of
those go as NIL. Might have been something I needed there ... never klnow..

Ya ya ya .... I know,.... but if you didn't copy the call it's not really a
2X QSO so work them all again.

Don't trust packet spots these days, you have to hang around and wait for a
sent call.

73
Gud DX CW
Kevin