[Elecraft] What is DX?

[Julia Tuttle]

It depends on what you're doing with it.

If you're using it for individual contests/awards/etc., I feel like setting
up your own station is required for it to "count".

If you're doing it for the fun of it, I feel like borrowing someone else's
is fine.

I'll throw in a related question: what's the right way to identify or
disclose when you're borrowing someone else's station? I've got 15 W into a
random wire in a noisy city QTH, but my girlfriend one state over (but same
FCC callsign digit) has 100 W into a proper 40m dipole in a quiet rural QTH.

Cheers,

Julie

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 8:14 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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