[Great-River-DX] A little DX humor

[Danny Pease]

Some of you may have already seen this, but I thought I would share it for
the few that have not.

 

Danny

 

 

 

Off one of the reflectors: 

 

 

 

 

 

The following is from the Daily DX Newsletter. Please take the time to read
it if you haven't already seen it. 

 

 

 

Subject: [The Daily DX] Bouvet Is 3Y0IOF Dxpedition Press Release! 

 

 

 

The following satire announcement is being sent around via the various 

reflectors. Just want to make sure everyone is aware of the exact text 

in case someone hears any rumors of an upcoming DXpedition to Bouvet 

Island. Again this is satire only. It will not be listed on The Daily 

DX calendar! 

73 

Bernie, W3UR 

 

 

3 December 2012 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

 

After a lot of negotiation we are pleased to announce a multinational 

team of twelve is to undertake a Dxpedition to Bouvet Island from 25 

March 2013 to 5 April 2013 using the callsign 3Y0IOF. 

 

We will be operating 24/7 with five stations covering all bands 

160m-10m. 

 

We understand that Dxpeditions are all about you the DX operator 

therefore we are pleased to announce some exciting new innovations. 

 

We appreciate many of you feel you should not have to make any effort to 

work us. Accordingly we are offering you the chance to call us on the 

telephone when you are ready for a QSO. That's right we will give you a 

phone number and when you are ready you can ring us and we will 

immediately cease to work the pile up and call you on a frequency of 

your choice. Not only that we will also ensure an email is sent to you 

directly after the QSO to confirm you are in the log. Furthermore we 

are organising a team of experts who, if you wish, will fly in and set 

up your rig on the required frequency, connect the antenna for you and 

make sure the heating or ventilation is on so it is nice and warm or 

cool in your shack as the case requires. Don't worry about propagation. 

We will make sure there is some between us as we understand that is our 

responsibility and it's our fault if there isn't. 

 

If that is not for you then don't worry we are just as happy to work you 

in a pile up. We realise that we will need to operate in accordance 

with your operating habits so therefore we will understand if you call 

over the top of another station we are trying to work, or when we are 

specifically calling a part of the world you do not reside in, or if you 

are simply calling aimlessly or while we are transmitting, or even if 

you call when you cannot hear us. We will do our best to work you 

despite all this and yes we know it's our fault if you do not make it 

into the log. 

 

We wish to acknowledge the value Frequency Cops bring to a Dxpedition so 

to recognise this we are going to specifically publicise some times when 

we will arrange for some operators to deliberately call us on our 

frequency instead of split. Frequency Cops can even register their 

availability with us to help us ensure these periods get maximum uptake 

by the Frequency Cop community. During these periods the Frequency Cops 

will be able to say or send "up up!" to their hearts content. (Note: we 

will make sure we tell the pile up to listen up and not down as the 

recent PT0S Dxpedition has taught us that Frequency Cops don't know how 

to send "down" in CW). 

 

We also don't want the "tuner uppers" to feel left out and like them we 

feel dummy loads are completely overrated. So when we are ready to 

transmit on a band we will give them the opportunity to tune up on our 

frequency before we start working the pile up. Each period will start 

with us sending our callsign and "QDL" ("Quick Dummy Loaders") so they 

will know when to commence tuning up on us. We will allow for at least 

five minutes for this as we know how important it is for the tuner 

uppers to make sure their finals are good and ready. We acknowledge if 

they go bang it's our fault. Depending on demand we will every now and 

then send "QDL" while working a pile up so any tuner uppers late to the 

party can tune up on us as well. 

 

Unfortunately we will not have cluster access while we are on Bouvet but 

we know this will not stop you posting announcements and comments on the 

cluster about our Dxpedition. Some suggestions for you to try include 

saying what band you want us to QSY to or mode to operate on, the 

quality of our ops and the usual "loud", "can't hear them here", "thanks 

for 7th band" or "yee hah" comments. Likewise as we noted above we 

understand it's our fault if you cannot work us and therefore we accept 

in that case you will post on the cluster calling us the worst 

Dxpedition ever. 

 

We can't wait to be of service to you. 

 

The 3Y0IOF Team 

 

 

RELEASE ENDS