[Great-River-DX] A little DX humor

Mon Dec 3 17:43:15 EST 2012

Sounds Great!! I can't wait. 73's and good luck on the ZL9HR that is on now.

  Oral   KØUBR  73's     

> From: dpease at adams.net
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> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 15:37:17 -0600
> Subject: [Great-River-DX] A little DX humor
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> Some of you may have already seen this, but I thought I would share it for
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> Danny
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> The following is from the Daily DX Newsletter. Please take the time to read
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> Subject: [The Daily DX] Bouvet Is 3Y0IOF Dxpedition Press Release! 
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> The following satire announcement is being sent around via the various 
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> reflectors. Just want to make sure everyone is aware of the exact text 
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> in case someone hears any rumors of an upcoming DXpedition to Bouvet 
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> Island. Again this is satire only. It will not be listed on The Daily 
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> DX calendar! 
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> 73 
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> Bernie, W3UR 
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> 3 December 2012 
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
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> After a lot of negotiation we are pleased to announce a multinational 
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> team of twelve is to undertake a Dxpedition to Bouvet Island from 25 
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> March 2013 to 5 April 2013 using the callsign 3Y0IOF. 
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> We will be operating 24/7 with five stations covering all bands 
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> 160m-10m. 
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> We understand that Dxpeditions are all about you the DX operator 
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> therefore we are pleased to announce some exciting new innovations. 
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> We appreciate many of you feel you should not have to make any effort to 
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> work us. Accordingly we are offering you the chance to call us on the 
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> telephone when you are ready for a QSO. That's right we will give you a 
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> phone number and when you are ready you can ring us and we will 
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> immediately cease to work the pile up and call you on a frequency of 
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> your choice. Not only that we will also ensure an email is sent to you 
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> directly after the QSO to confirm you are in the log. Furthermore we 
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> are organising a team of experts who, if you wish, will fly in and set 
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> up your rig on the required frequency, connect the antenna for you and 
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> make sure the heating or ventilation is on so it is nice and warm or 
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> cool in your shack as the case requires. Don't worry about propagation. 
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> We will make sure there is some between us as we understand that is our 
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> responsibility and it's our fault if there isn't. 
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> If that is not for you then don't worry we are just as happy to work you 
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> in a pile up. We realise that we will need to operate in accordance 
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> with your operating habits so therefore we will understand if you call 
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> over the top of another station we are trying to work, or when we are 
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> specifically calling a part of the world you do not reside in, or if you 
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> are simply calling aimlessly or while we are transmitting, or even if 
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> you call when you cannot hear us. We will do our best to work you 
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> despite all this and yes we know it's our fault if you do not make it 
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> into the log. 
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> We wish to acknowledge the value Frequency Cops bring to a Dxpedition so 
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> to recognise this we are going to specifically publicise some times when 
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> we will arrange for some operators to deliberately call us on our 
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> frequency instead of split. Frequency Cops can even register their 
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> availability with us to help us ensure these periods get maximum uptake 
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> by the Frequency Cop community. During these periods the Frequency Cops 
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> will be able to say or send "up up!" to their hearts content. (Note: we 
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> will make sure we tell the pile up to listen up and not down as the 
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> recent PT0S Dxpedition has taught us that Frequency Cops don't know how 
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> to send "down" in CW). 
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> We also don't want the "tuner uppers" to feel left out and like them we 
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> feel dummy loads are completely overrated. So when we are ready to 
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> transmit on a band we will give them the opportunity to tune up on our 
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> frequency before we start working the pile up. Each period will start 
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> with us sending our callsign and "QDL" ("Quick Dummy Loaders") so they 
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> will know when to commence tuning up on us. We will allow for at least 
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> five minutes for this as we know how important it is for the tuner 
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> uppers to make sure their finals are good and ready. We acknowledge if 
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> they go bang it's our fault. Depending on demand we will every now and 
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> then send "QDL" while working a pile up so any tuner uppers late to the 
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> party can tune up on us as well. 
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> Unfortunately we will not have cluster access while we are on Bouvet but 
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> we know this will not stop you posting announcements and comments on the 
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> cluster about our Dxpedition. Some suggestions for you to try include 
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> saying what band you want us to QSY to or mode to operate on, the 
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> quality of our ops and the usual "loud", "can't hear them here", "thanks 
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> for 7th band" or "yee hah" comments. Likewise as we noted above we 
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> understand it's our fault if you cannot work us and therefore we accept 
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> in that case you will post on the cluster calling us the worst 
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> Dxpedition ever. 
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> We can't wait to be of service to you. 
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> The 3Y0IOF Team 
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> RELEASE ENDS 
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