[OKDXA] 5H licensing..

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:09:06 -0000

Kim,

Using QRP and running the power up and down is a technique that some DX
operators use to limit the pileups.  Some of the needy don't like that but
it is a technique that works.  An operator may be able to work faster and
work more stations using that technique rather than fighting a big pileup.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Elmore" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] 5H licensing..

> Thanks, Jim!  We found it.
>
> She's still contemplating if she wants to tackle this. I let her listen a
> bit to the TJ pileup last night, which was one of the messier ones I've
> heard in a while, complete with policemen. The example wasn't meant to
> scare her off, but to demonstrate what she might expect. I need to find an
> SSB pileup so she can hear that, too. Some ops have a knack for SSB
pileups
> but, alas, I'm not one of them. They're such a free-for-all that I have
> difficulty finding the station being worked by the DX and so have trouble
> figuring out any pattern.
>
> If she takes anything, it will certainly be QRP.  Who knows? This may
limit
> who can hear her, and so naturally limit the pileup a little.
>
> 73,
>
> Kim Elmore, N5OP
>
> At 01:37 AM 3/23/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >Kim,
> >
> >This site is quite good.
> >
> >http://www.dxholiday.com/
> >
> >Jim
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kim Elmore" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:25 AM
> >Subject: [OKDXA] 5H licensing..
> >
> >
> > > Well, here goes... My wife may be going to Tanzania for about two
weeks in
> > > October.  While she has barely been active on HF (she's barely been
active
> > > on the radio), for some inexplicable reason, she's considering taking
an
> >HF
> > > rig with her.  I've warned her about the stupendous pile-ups she'd
face
> >and
> > > that managing them is not for the weak-at-heart. She's even
considering
> > > doing it all CW (and I don't recall that she's ever made a CW
contact...).
> > > In all other respects, she is still the same wife I've known and loved
for
> > > nearly 20 years.
> > >
> > > That said, does anyone know what is involved in getting operating
> > > privileges in 5H-land?
> > >
> > > Kim Elmore -- N5OP
> > >
> > > P.S.: It was good to see the OKDXA shirts at the Green Country
Hamfest.  I
> > > was proud to wear it and claim affiliation with such a suspicious...
Er,
> > > make that *auspicious* group.
> > >
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>                            Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
>                         University of Oklahoma
>          Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
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> greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.
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