[Elecraft] What is DX?

[Dave]

Hi Andy

I agree. My station may never make Honor Roll but I can say all my contacts are from my station. I too take it as a personal goal and not a competition. I do not need to buy time at a Super Station. 

Don’t get me wrong, the pay to play stations are great for those that otherwise cannot get on the air, as long as they designate one station as their “home” station. But alas the rules do not make that distinction. 

My friend in Hawaii and I (NJ) share each other’s stations. But I maintain a KH6/wo2x LoTW account for contacts made from his station. 

Each person can have differences of opinion on this which is OK. I’ll continue as a personal achievement. 

Dave wo2x
President NJDXA 

Sent from my waxed string and tin cans. 

> On Jun 29, 2021, at 8:15 PM, Andy Durbin <a.durbin at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> ""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
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