[Elecraft] What is DX?

[Andy Durbin]

""Dialing for DX" is not amateur radio!!!"

Do you know how many DX entities I have worked or confirmed?  If you knew would you care?  Does the fact that that I may have worked some DX using other stations make less DX available for you to work?

I regard my DX count as a personal achievement.  I choose to work all my DX from "my" station but it's a very long time since I could claim that I built everything in my station and even then I didn't fabricate the bottles, resistors and capacitors.  Most of those came from equipment I had cannibalized.

I have a good friend who will happily go to a good station in town to work Bouvet if it is ever activated again.  If he works Bouvet good luck to him.  I don't want to work Bouvet unless it is from my station.  That's my choice and it doesn't impact anyone else.

I don't care what station anyone else operates.  I do care if they operate a remote station and declare that they are somewhere else.  Those lies do impact me if I'm gullible enough to a attempt a QSO.

Andy, k3wyc