[South Florida DX Association] Kemadec - ending Dec 5th - 160m news

[Norman Alexander]

The ZL8X Kermadec Island operation is drawing to a close - Dec 5th.  Hopefully 
all who needed them made it.  I was fortunate to work them on all bands and 
modes available except 160 SSB.  


The following is an excerpt from their web site, may be of interest to those 
still needing them on 160m.  Note the suggestions on NOT spotting them, good 
idea.  

 Also listen to instructions -
As II still needed them on 40m RTTY, I had been stalking them for several days.  
The pile-up over the last few days has been tremendous, with Europe and JA's 
calling as well as USA  all well past our sunrise here on the East coast.  
However last night (wee hours) they were booming through S9 on 40m just at THEIR 
sunset - Big pile-up from all over, calling 3 to 5 up.  But then they announced 
listening up 3-10, tuned up 8, didn't hear anyone calling - sent two bursts and 
bingo got the QSO.  #23 band/mode- My calling frequency got filled instantly 
when I finished - 

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160m operation update
With over 3,500 QSOs already in our log one might think that pile-ups  are 
getting smaller on Top Band. But there are still a lot of stations  who want to 
get their chance to make it in our 160m log. In the last  days we observed bad 
behaviors of cluster users which makes our and the  caller's life very hard. We 
have following advice for all of you:
	* Do not spot our split frequency! Those who hear us also can copy  our split 
frequency, those who do not hear us should also not call us!
	* Do not spot us if we are already spotted! It just produces more QRM!
	* Do not spot us if we have to move our TX frequency to avoid additional QRM!
	* Tell us in the cluster when we are jammed on our TX frequency! We  will read 
the cluster spots and can move immediately to another  frequency.
	* We will only work SSB when there is no pile-up on CW. So please do not ask 
for SSB when there is a CW pile-up!
We are very sorry but last night our beverage to North America was  broken. So 
it was very hard to copy NA stations in the S9 noise of the  ground plane. We 
will repair it during daytime today.
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They also said definitely NO 80m RTTY

 Regards,


Norm W4QN