[Elecraft] New DXCC ST0R, Southern Sudan

[Sam Morgan]

can't work em if you can't hear them!

GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan

On 8/9/2011 10:22 AM, Tony Estep wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Paul VanOveren<paul at nf8j.com>  wrote:
>
>> ... all 40 DX Zones...
>
> ========
>   It took them a long time to finally get their 40th zone, which ironically
> was Zone 34, the zone in which they are located. The regulars in that zone
> are ST2AR and SU9VB, but for whatever reason neither one has worked ST0R.
> They have a single call in the log from 34, SU1SK.
>
> In the most recent QST, the editorial was devoted to trying to figure out
> how many hams there are in the world. The figures are soft, because not all
> countries furnish data, but their estimate was that there may be about 2
> million licensed stations, with a somewhat larger number of individual hams.
> Of these, a substantial number are VHF-only licenses. As of this morning,
> ST0R has worked 27,000+ different calls. This may provide a rough count of
> the number of hams who care about DX, since it's a new one for everybody.
> Comparing this to the total, one might conclude that fewer than 2% of hams
> are DX chasers. Note that the number of QSOs is 6.5x the number of calls
> worked! Guys are working them on many bands/modes.
>
>
> Tony KT0NY