I have to temper my outrage at the pileups on TI9KK a little bit after listening to the operation on 17m SSB today.
I came in when she was listening for 2's. She worked them for 20 minutes or so and then just started taking any callers for a while. After about a half hour of that she called for EU only EU only, I'm sure much to the relief of some EUs. There were about 5 million EU callers on her listening frequency as I heard it (I'm a little closer to EU than TI9 is but I digress) After working three to five EU stations she then called "only American stations #1 please" She's worked about 6 #1 stations and is now back to #2. Good day to be a #2 ;-)... though she just took a 4... and another one. Then a 3, now another 4. Aaaand an 8. And another 4. And a 9. Clearly back to taking everyone. I'm not whining because I'm a 3, don't worry... - - - - - - - - Now I have heard this on plenty of other DX operations as well, I'm not picking on TI9KK... but it's really going to make the pileup super stupid to go back and forth between working numbers and not. I don't think anyone should work by the numbers, but if you have to you have to go through all of them at least once before you go back to taking anyone. I can just see the steam coming out of the EU's ears right now... So, to be fair, the mess is coming from both sides Dan Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [email protected] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
