[Elecraft] Swains Island

[Bob K6UJ]

I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided 
to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image.   :-)  


Bob
K6UJ




On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:

> *Tony,
> 
> I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually
> ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask
> "the station ending in Tango your call?" and they do this with almost every
> call and most of the time on all bands.
> 
> Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls
> and I am not that far away from them by distance.
> 
> You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using
> K3's
> 
> :-)
> *
> On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep <esteptony at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft,  has been going strong
>> for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st
>> most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps,
>> although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been
>> too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org
>> 
>> Tony KT0NY
>> 
>> 
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