[South Florida DX Association] News From ZL8X Website

[Bill]

News From ZL8X Website
Written by DL1MGB, December 3rd 2010, 02:27

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 behaviours 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.

RTTY operation update
You already might observed that we extended our RTTY operation to more 
bands than originally planned. This is due to the decreasing pile-ups on 
the bands. So if the pile-Ups in CW or in SSB are not too high we also 
offer RTTY operation on that band. Because the demand for a CW QSO on 
80m is still high we will definitely not offer RTTY operation there.