[OKDXA] INTERESTING MORNING

[John Geiger]

You do have to admit, there are plenty of downsides to
the DX cluster.

73s John AA5JG

--- Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I need to be more active. Honestly, though, I'm
> finding DXing less 
> enjoyanble lately. The howling masses are simply
> clueless and it's 
> deeply frustrating. I fancy myself to be an OK DXer.
> I understand 
> split, I can even use it properly, and I know what a
> receiver is. In 
> fact, I tend to listen far more that I transmit, and
> I can usually 
> find something that either I haven't worked, or
> hasn't been posted on 
> some cluster before I find it.
> 
> But recently, it's simply a total cluster, ah,
> party. I'm not talking 
> about frequency cops or the knuckleheads that QRM
> the DX. I'm talking 
> about participants in the pile. I don't see how some
> of these idiots 
> manage to work anyone because they never, ever stop
> calling. Ever. 
> They don't listen -- I doubt they'd ever know if the
> DX calls them. 
> It's utterly maddening. And this is CW!  I simply
> don't do phone DXing much.
> 
> Used to be that I could find the guy the DX calls,
> watch a few 
> exchanges, take a pretty good guess at where the DX
> will listen next, 
> and usually snag what I'm after -- though not right
> away. Might take 
> a couple of days before propagation favors me. And,
> I might get out 
> gunned (I don't have fantastic antennas on 125 ft
> towers -- I'm a 
> moderately well-equipped station with run-of-the
> mill antennas that 
> are nothing to write home about), but at least I'd
> know when and who 
> the DX is calling. Lately, it's been simply
> indecipherable on many 
> occasions. I can usually hear the DX make a call
> (though sometimes 
> only about half the time due to ninnyhammers) but I
> can't find the 
> guy he's working because so many alligators never
> shut their mouths. 
> That keeps me from finding any pattern, such as
> working their way up 
> the band, or down the band, favoring the edges, of
> the pile.
> 
> Whuf!  There. I feel better, now.
> 
> Kim Elmore, N5OP
> 
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