Re: [DX-CHAT] Re: [SPAM]Re: [DX-NEWS] Best Practices for DXpedition Operating
At 07:15 12/12/2012, Gary wrote: . Vince K5VT - SK would really do something neat. Vince would have this huge CW pileup going, and send 32. I'd spin the dial up to 32 and call once. Bingo! Reward for actually LISTENING to the DX op 73, Gary K7ZD This works great on SSB too. The one time I was the DX (C9) after a while I would announce a new split every 2-3 calls. Those who listened got the new split and got right into the log. Those that didn't, didn't. -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1961 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html - --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
[DX-CHAT] SF help needed
I am looking for someone who is line-of-sight to Twin Peaks and who has an SDR with 2m FM coverage. The reason is that I want to try some special filtering to eliminate a specific interfering signal on a repeater situated there. My SDR quits at 6m, so I cannot do the filtering. Anyone running PSDR with 2m support, please let me know. It should only take a few minutes -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1961 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html - --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
RE: [DX-CHAT] Spotting Etiquette
I agree with this post completely. At 10:25 6/7/2012, Peter W2IRT wrote: I'm of mixed feelings but on occasion I don't mind it to be totally honest. If it's a nearby big gun station reporting no-copy once in a while I'm OK with it. If it's constant then, no. Also, for BC, it's easy enough to block either one constant annoying station outright or, if you're using a CC-based cluster, to block or time-limit-by-band spots from VE7. I've blocked W3LPL's spots outright and I block spots from certain geographic areas and also based on time. It's easy enough to configure in AR-user software from VE7CC. Sometimes a not-heard from NJ but good spots from NC tell me something about propagation. I guess it depends on how frequently the not-heard spots get posted. Once here or there for a major DXpedition, especially on a difficult band like 10m, I can appreciate. - pjd From: kf...@njdxa.org [mailto:kf...@njdxa.org] On Behalf Of GERRY Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:35 PM To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Subject: [DX-CHAT] Spotting Etiquette Spotting etiquette has bugged me for a long time so I thought I'd vent. I really don't understand why some folks want to tell us that they can't hear the DX where they are. I thought the purpose of DX SPOTTING was to tell us where (and by whom) the DX IS being heard. Imagine the traffic if everyone who didn't hear the DX reported it. I have my program set to tell me when the DX is being heard in NA and it's darn annoying to get an alarm and highlight from someone in BC (I use BC as an example not to offend other NA non-spotters) telling us he also can't hear the DX. FWiW 73, Gerry VE6LB/VA6XDX VE6 QSL Bureau Team DXCC Field Checker mailto:ve...@telus.netve...@telus.net 403-251-0384 http://www.qsl.net/ve6lb --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to mailto:imail...@njdxa.orgimail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.orghttp://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1961 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html - --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
[DX-CHAT] Who should pay for a DXpedition?
At 11:11 12/21/2011, Ryan Jairam wrote: It is apparent that some don't realize the massive costs of a major DXpedition. It's not simply two guys taking a boat with a rig and a wire antenna. Some of these operations cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Or as some have opined for an upcoming attempt, even $1M. Which raises the question: Who should eat the cost? My answer is: The DXers should eat the cost of their personal expenses like food and minimal lodging. Ridiculous lodging like $300 per bed night at Sable is a different matter. The DXers should also contribute something to the general expenses of the trip. But the bulk of the remainder should be born by clubs/foundations and the deserving. If Heard will cost $1M and generates 100K QSOs, that is $10 per QSO. Are the deserving really willing to pay that? And if not, who will? I can't imagine 20 DXers ponying up $50K each. Is the day of the DXpedition to remote rocks over? -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html - --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Leader boards
At 14:21 10/24/2011, Don Berger wrote: I must admit this leader board is a new concept to me and I've been a Dx'er for 50 years. I infer it is a list of the sum total of q's made with a Dxpedition. Not quite, I believe it is a count of band x modes. So a max of 3 counts per band (fewer for 30m). If so , I'm perplexed at the name - shouldn't it be the get a life board? Don K1vsk - Original Message - From: mailto:d...@wpaperman.comDave To: mailto:dx-chat@njdxa.org'DX Chat' Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 4:34 PM Subject: [DX-CHAT] Leader boards Greetings; I've stated this before, quite a while ago. Whether it be chasing DX or designing equipment, I challenge only myself. Hard to cheat that way g. One would need to be somewhat schizophrenic to derive any satisfaction from cheating oneself. The leader boards can be fun as well as a proof of meeting operating challenges. Sort of a contest without need to sit in a chair and yell (or, for us mixed mode operators, work at getting Carpal-Tunnel syndrome) for 24 - 36 hours at a time. It takes a mind set of someone who is very ignorant or insecure to cheat at the leader board game. It appears that, as the years go by, the concept of Gentleman as coupled with DXer is becoming extinct (if they indeed existed) either through ignorance, desperation to excel at any price or just sheer malice against fellow hobbyists. There are pileups that I just will not wade in to due to the aggregation of LIDS, intentional jammers (If I can't work you - no one will) , newbies (and old timers) that just won't listen and the nasty traffic cops. Admittedly this is a luxury that I can indulge in having reached the Top of the Honor Roll. My ulcers however, did pay a price getting there. And then there is the Challenge. Still a lot of band - modes to fill in. I guess, in a sense what is happening in Amateur Radio is a reflection of society today: ME first - ME only - ME now! I'll leave the invectives to your imagination. Guess I'll go drown my sorrows in a glass of tomato juice. It appears that a friend of mine beat me by ONE QSO with the T32C gang. I'll never get over it.'till the next leader board contest g. Good DX to all. Dave, W5WP --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html - --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Up
At 14:17 10/23/2011, Elmar PD3EM wrote: A lot of chances to work a DX or DX-pedition are ruined by hams that don't listen before they TX. Here's a mail I sent to my local club and NCDXC a few days after Pacificon: The reminder to LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN that I was given at Pacificon worked great for me this AM. T32C was on 40m SSB and had a pretty good pileup. 40m does not work well for me, I think it is a feed-line issue because my screwdriver tunes beautifully on all bands but 40m. Anyway, hearing the pileup made me think my best strategy was to listen, and I started to hear him complaining about his QSOs getting QRMed by other deserving calling and calling. Then he said, Give me a second, I am going to check around. He had been working simplex and I took this as a clue he was planning to start working split. So I set my radio to split and VFO A to his old frequency, and the mouse cross hairs (I run a flex3K) to VFO B. When he came back he said I am going to start working split, QSX 7180 and in 2-3 seconds I clicked on 7180 and hit the foot pedal, he came back as I was the only one that fast and I got him first call (can't use my amp on 40m, the SWR is too high). It was a delight and a triumph for LISTENING. Thank you all. -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html - --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Birds
At 14:54 9/14/2011, HK3CW wrote: Mark, Put up a vertical! Build a cat elevator, buy a shotgun, buy an amp, work longpath and try to work the stn again but shortpath, put a scarecrow at the end of the boom, put up a sign on the boom that says slippery when wet, get into falconry.. See there's plenty of methods! Actually there are bird-repellant wraps you can get for more or less horizontal surfaces, see http://www.birdbgone.com/products/bird-spikes/ Dunno what the metal ones would do to the antenna characteristics, but should broaden the bandwidth. Now try that birds! Arrrgg! 73 de HK3CW Rob - Original Message - From: mailto:k...@hotmail.comMark Horowitz To: mailto:dx-chat@njdxa.orgdx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:24 PM Subject: [DX-CHAT] Birds Does anyone have a fairly good method of keeping birds off Yagis?. I am constantly having problems with birds. Any ideas would be appreaciated. Thanks, 73, Mark...K2AU...Fort Lauderdale, FL --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html - --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] FW: [DX-NEWS] DXpedition calling practices
At 14:20 7/26/2011, john wrote: Agreed...by the numbers is great, if you take 5 min of 1's , 5, of 2's , etc. That rarely happens, and indeed it sucks if you're not in 1 or 2 land. To make numbers work, use a random starting number, 0-9 That however is what makes the hunt so interesting...and frustrating sometimes! John K5MO At 04:00 PM 7/26/2011, Gary Wilburn wrote: Forwarded from Waynes post in dx-news Great words of wisdom Wayne that I wish more Dx Pedition operators would follow. By the numbers is great if your in 1 land not so great for the guy in 0 (zero) land. Many times by the time the DX gets to zero land band conditions have changed. Sometimes you hear them begin with zero but not very often. Continents and parts of continents (west, east, central regions or coasts would make better QSO rates especially if timed with peaked propagation openings. 73, Gary W8VI -- A DXpedition operator who says JA Only and complains about calls by others in Asia is an inexperienced DXpedition operator. Generally, JA means Asia. Further, working strictly by counties is simply not acceptable. Most of us who have tried it wont ever do it again. Numbers dont work, either. Working continents (with flexibility) is the most effective, if you HAVE to subdivide the pileup. There are a number of other equitable ways, as well. 73, Wayne, N7NG Jackson, Wyoming -- From: kf...@njdxa.org [mailto:kf...@njdxa.org] On Behalf Of BILL KIRK Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:35 AM To: ra9ab-m...@mail.ru; dx-n...@njdxa.org Subject: Re: [DX-NEWS] DXpedition calling practices I agree with Michail. Seldom, if ever, does the DXpedition call for RA's, UA's, etc. Maybe the DXpeditions want to take notice. 73, Bill NJ1X From: M.Vasiliev ra9ab-m...@mail.ru To: dx-n...@njdxa.org Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [DX-NEWS] DXpedition calling practices Hello Charles, Here, in UA9, from every DX-pedition we always can hear onlly EU and only JA and sometimes we even have no chance to work this DX in time of good propagation UA9 -You are not EU!. UA9 -You are not JA! Something like this :( Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 9:28:48 AM, you wrote: CH When a DXpedition chooses to call BY COUNTRY, such as only CH JA, it is no surprise that they never call only HS, but by CH calling only EU etc, little old me in Thailand gets left CH out--like VU, SEAsia, and China as well as CENTRAL America. There CH are hams in these ignored areas of the world who do not like to CH try to break the JA only announcement, but have no choice. But CH it is no fun to call, as I just did, for 4 hours (ST0R) while the CH op ran JA only and twice made the mistake of sending HS and CH then correcting himself--he heard me, hi hi. CH Note, my K4VUD email has been hacked. 73, Charly HS0ZCW -- Best regards, M.Vasiliev - R9AB - ICQ 8636160 mailto:ra9ab-m...@mail.ru --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to mailto:imail...@njdxa.orgimail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.orghttp://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959 All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html
