[Elecraft] Swains Island

[Bob K6UJ]

Gary,

The operator himself is a large part of the equation I believe, but then again they have very good operators.......................

We have 9 days to go and they way they are knocking out the Q's you will undoubtedly do well in a few more days on the WARC bands.
They will be calling CQ and falling asleep at the mike  hihi

73,
Bob
K6UJ



On Sep 10, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:

> (TIC)....well all I can say is that is not working...:-)
> 
> I was very surprised to hear very good operators NOT being able to distinguish call signs over and over again.
> 
> I thought it was me so I went up to listen in the pileup from JA and granted they are sometimes S9+20 with the 'weaker' ones @ S9 BUT I am able to hear several call signs clearly and I wrote them down as I listened.
> 
> I mentioned this to another K3 owner with 59 years experience (I'm a relative newbie at this) and he cam back after several minutes and made the same comment.
> 
> Whilst I don't want to come across as too biased, I was just making an observation based on my perception. I will say that here their audio is excellent and the operators are extremely patient and polite. So Kudo's to all the operators I have heard so far.
> 
> I do find it interesting when I think back to some recent Dxpeditions and the way the operators could grab full call signs and were logging stations quickly. From memory most of these were using K3's and the pileups were pretty chaotic as usual.
> 
> Worked them on 80/20/15 and 10M but the WARC bands are proving problematical for me with just a dipole to work with against the pileup..:-(
> 
> 73
> 
> On 11 September 2012 07:29, Bob K6UJ <k6uj at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 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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