[OKDXA] Number One Honor Roll

[dan edwards]

 boy, that's the truth...it has taken me 15 years to work 249 and 39 zones on 160m.. from suburban locations on small lots..and no towers, just wires in the trees ( and on the ground...)
we just have to keep on keeping on...
still, i think there is at least 'some' skill, technical competence, patience, and luck involved...
jm2c, w5xz, dan


    On Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 05:44:51 AM CDT, Kevin N0CWR <dxblackhole at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 “ it seems like the main determinate of working the “hard ones” is not a
function of operator skill or equipment but rather geopolitical realities. “

Your right about it not being  a function of…..

Especially now with FT8 . Where you’ll see a -23 and a + 10 report on the
same report line.
If your able to keep calling long enough the lottery will work for you. No
DX skill required.

The biggest  factor - It’s age.
 Being alive and an active DXer a long time determines whether you’ve
worked them all.
You will notice All the big DXCC totals belong to the OF’s

Keep active and don’t die Roger and Eventually  that DX entity you need
will come around again for you.

GL es 73
Kevin
N0CWR

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 11:38 PM JOHN GEIGER via OKDXA <
okdxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> 3Z9DX (Dom) activated North Korea in 2015.  Turkmenistan was activated
> earlier this year on 10 meters only by a German Op.
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> 73 John AF5CC
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> ---- On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:56:28 -0500 Roger Simpson <rksimpson1 at cox.net>
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> Congrats to W5DX on getting to the magic mark of 100 entities.
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> One thing about DXing is that is becomes harder to work new countries
> because eventually the countries you need are only rarely one the air.
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> My own experience suggests that I’ll never make it to the top of the Honor
> Roll.  I need Bouvet, Johnston Island, Kerguelen Island, Pratas Island, San
> Felix Island, Turkmenistan, and North Korea – DPRK.
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> I started chasing DX in 2005 when moving here to Oklahoma City from
> Silicon Valley. To my knowledge the only DX that was active since 2005 that
> I did not work was the recent Bouvet operation which was greatly shortened
> in scope due to the extreme harshness of the environment. I guess the main
> reason I have not worked most of the countries I need is not because of
> poor propagation or poor antennas. Instead the limiting factor to working
> them all seems to be primarily not being able to get permission to get an
> amateur license and/or permission to enter the DX entity and setup a
> station.
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> The only new DX country I have worked in the last 5 years is Crozet.
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> While stacked mono-banders on a 100 tower for each band is nice it seems
> like the main determinate of working the “hard ones” is not a function of
> operator skill or equipment but rather geopolitical realities.
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> Like the guys in the NCDXA say “DXing Is”.  It is an endeavor where a
> random walk is sometimes the only path.
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> I wonder when the most recent year was that the “rarest ten” countries
> were activated.
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> 73    Roger  K5RKS
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