Very true Mike,
The United States is a big place too....too often it's "East Coast" and
"West Coast".... forgetting everything in between. The other problem is
that most DX stations always start with "1's". Living in the 9th
district.......
A month or so ago there was a DX station on from Africa. He was quite
loud in W9. He was also loud in EU. He probably had propagation to EU
for two or three times the number of hours than to NA. Both the Midwest
and East Coast were calling but couldn't break through the EU pile-up.
After quite a while a few East Coast stations made it through. Then the
DX station switched to US call districts...1s,2s,3s,4s. Of course this
made EU ops angry...and the cluster comments started right away. He
didn't work just 5 or 10 per district....he worked each district until
there were no stations left in that district. "Any more 1s......any
more 1s? Please any more 1s?" He worked 1s for 35 minutes....
By this time the West Coast was hearing him quite well...it was over 90
minutes later. Of course a few West Coast stations called out of turn.
Then it was "standing by for West Coast only". Another hour elapsed,
the pile-up got nasty and by the time he got to 9's and 0's propagation
was gone. Good thing I didn't need him and was occupied doing other
things in the shack.
And of course he never stood by for SA, Caribbean...all of which were
copying him too.
Call districts is a bad idea anyway....work the propagation not the
numbers.
On 12/11/2012 9:20 AM, M.Vasiliev wrote:
Hello Benny,
Try to imagine our senses here in zones 17-18 when DXped op start to
call EU just after JA (or JA just after EU )... But UA9-UA0 is not
too small territory with a big numbers of DXers!
Europeans shocking! When DX OP start to call "outside of EU" they
usually coming to the DX freq with comments, carriers and so on.
Several years ago I got back to the HAM-radio after some years of my
"radio silence" and I was just shocked by behavior of DX-ers in a
pile-ups!
Even JA-s are not like some Years before.
Seems all World is changed. And not into a better shape. Why the the
HAM-radio must stay the same? :(
Mike R9AB
Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 8:33:27 PM, you wrote:
>
ONE IMPORTANT RULE LEFT OUT.
A RECENT DX OP WAS SENDING EU EU EU AT NORTH AMERICA SUNRISE ON 80M CW.
THE GREY LINE WORKS FOR DXPEDITIONS TOO. CALLING FOR EU AT EU SUNRISE
ON 80M CW MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE AND BETTER QSO RATE.
73
BENNY K5KV
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:00 AM, BILL KIRK <wk9...@verizon.net
<mailto:wk9...@verizon.net>> wrote:
Hello,
I would like to suggest that another "Best Practice" would be to
continue to use the call districts
when asking for US stations so as to minimize some of the chaos.
Bill, NJ1X
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Subject: [DX-NEWS] Best Practices for DXpedition Operating
Hello,
We believe that much of the chaos on the bands during DXpeditions is
caused by the operating tactics of the DXpedition operator – this
leads to poor operating by DX-Chasers, and therefore to chaos. At a
meeting of RSGB, CDXC and GM-DX on October 13th we agreed to
strengthen the ‘DX Code of Conduct’ and to prioritise the DXpedition
side. This has now been completed, thanks to Wayne N7NG and ‘DX
University’, and has been renamed ‘Best Practices for DXpedition
Operating’. Please see:
http://www.dxuniversity.com/showpage.php?id=20&title=Best_Practices_for_DXpedition_Operating
or go to www.dxuniversity.com <http://www.dxuniversity.com> click on
DXpeditioning Tools, then Basic Practices. Each of the 13 points is
hyper-linked to some explanatory text.
We would hope that DX organisations will adopt it as a condition of
funding. This would hopefully spread to become the normal requirement
for all DXpedition funding: DXpeditions would not only ‘support’ it,
but would also implement it on-air. In this way we expect that chaos
on DX bands can be reduced somewhat whenever a DXpedition is under way.
I look forward to seeing your comments,
73 de Roger/G3SXW.
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