[Elecraft] OT--TX5P

[Tony Estep]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:55 PM, dyarnes <w7aqk at cox.net> wrote:

> .... the behavior of the calling stations was appalling....

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 Dave, I was licensed in 1957 and became a DXer as a novice, as soon as my
code speed was up to the task. On a regular basis, the DX columns in QST
and CQ were more or less verbatim copies of your complaint. Even though of
course the piles were way smaller and the bands were much better in those
days. But apparently it ain't ever gonna change. An ugly scourge today is
the deliberate qrm, something that rarely happened in the old days.
Apparently some guys get ticked off when a pileup takes up some of the
precious spectrum where they could otherwise be calling cq, and they
transmit endlessly on top of the dx.  It's worldwide: some of the worst
ones come from certain Euro countries. Another present-day scourge is the
up-cop, something that didn't exist in the old days.

Anyway, the point of your post, that a KX3 works fine as a dx station, is a
good one and I bet we see many more in the future.

Tony KT0NY