[Elecraft] Swains Is

[Tony Estep]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:44 PM, r miles <greenacres113 at charter.net> wrote:

> ....at least 5 or 6 idiots were calling...

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When I was first licensed in 1957 this and all the many related topics were
discussed practically every month in columns in CQ and/or QST, and it will
never change as long as there are pileups. Situations like this are treated
on the website of every DXpedition, and the DX Code specifically addresses
them. DX columns in CQ and QST still make exactly the same comments they
made 55 years ago. However, it is fruitless. Every village has an idiot,
and every pileup is the equivalent of several villages.

As a side note: The NH8 DXpedition, like most recent expeditions, started
out by trying to operate in the General portion of the bands, in order to
maximize QSOs. They advertised on their website that this would be their
policy. However, they are now operating entirely in the Extra portions at
the very low end of the bands, probably in the hope that the pileup
behavior will improve. Of course, to the limited extent that this improves
matters, it's good only for CW and only on the non-WARC bands. And sad to
say, the behavior of Extra licensees does not really seem to be much of an
improvement. Still on-freq callers, still up-cops, still tuner-uppers, and
still deliberate QRMers.

It's natural to get frustrated, but as far as I can figure out, the best
answer is just to learn how to work DX in spite of all this nonsense,
because it ain't gonna go away.

Tony KT0NY


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