[Elecraft] [OT] is DX Relative or Absolute?

[David Gilbert]

I think the great popularity of QRP proves that DX is purely relative.  
To argue otherwise seems a bit elitist to me.

I believe in trying to squeeze the best out of what you have ... not 
obsessing over what you don't have.

Dave   AB7E


On 9/3/2025 7:52 PM, Wayne Burdick via Elecraft wrote:
> I accidentally discovered QRP at age 16 by killing the finals on my
> hand-me-down Hallicrafters HT-37 transmitter. Despite getting just 200 mW
> of output from the naked drivers, I said what the heck and worked a CW
> station 2500 miles away. Hooked! This was jaw-dropping, merit-badge-worthy
> DX, at least to me. The rest is long, twisted personal history.
>
> Since then I've come to look at DX as relative. Any number of tragic
> consequences can give the operator a quantitative handicap: solar cycle
> minimum, mass coronal ejections, stubborn refusal to increase power or use
> a larger antenna, dead battery, too big a pile-up, chores at the wrong
> time, electrical defrocking of sanctified gear via lightning -- the list
> goes on.
>
> Yet so do we.
>
> There's an old saying I just made up: If conditions suck, DX is anything
> past line-of-sight.
>
> But in the spirit of potential acquiescence to the hammular hive-mind, I
> yield the floor to those who might argue an absolutist DX position. If your
> comments are as rhetorical as mine, feel free to send them only to me, for
> their entertainment value. No sense burning epic BTUs on off-topic topics,
> given that bitcoin and AI are doing a stellar job of that already.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>