Yes, I agree; that was a huge and bitter disappointment for me. Marion is one I hope to get one of these days, but from what I last read last year, it's treated by the South African gov't the same way the U.S. treats Navassa, thus it probably won't be up for a long time. But, I did manage to get Petrus on Bouvet for an all-time New One, so I'm not too upset on-balance.
I've had some amazing luck with rare and obscure entities in the last little while, but the truly world-class ultra-rare places are still not in my log, since most were all on before I got active and haven't been heard from since,-- or only here-and-there, for a day-or-two at most (Kingman, Heard, Macquarie, Campbell Island, Navassa, Yemen, etc). P5 I just couldn't hear and I only had low wires and 100W back then. I think the only one in that category that I can say I'm lucky enough to have snared was Scarborough Reef this last activation and I'm still over-the-moon thinking about busting that pile as many times as I did. VU4 and VU7 were similarly thrilling, too. I'm really looking forward to Glorioso next month as well. As I wrote in another forum, I'm utterly fascinated by the thought of working entities that have been artificially closed off, seemingly-forever, by government fiat -- rather than just plain difficult or expensive to activate. Think Navassa versus Peter-1. With no sunspots, the tense world security and financial situations, I hope I'm around long enough to see another 7O or P5 or ZS8. Gotta wonder, back in the day, how many hams never lived long enough to get a BY, VU or a ZA in their logs. ----------------------------------- Regards, Peter, W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: Dick Flanagan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:36 AM To: Peter Dougherty Cc: 'DX CHAT' Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] ZS8T I truly wonder if Petrus will ever know just how many people donated time, money and equipment to make his operation a success. On the other hand, I am sure the pile-ups would have daunted even an experienced DXer, let alone a new and experienced ham like Petrus. If anyone could be blamed for the shortfall, I think it would be those who inflated the expectations of the DX community without knowing whether Petrus would be up to the task. In many ways I feel sorry for him and the legacy that will always follow him. Dick At 09:18 PM 8/20/2009, Peter Dougherty wrote: >Not enough! > >----------------------------------- > >Regards, > >Peter, >W2IRT > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dick Flanagan >Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:39 PM >To: DX CHAT >Subject: [DX-CHAT] ZS8T > > >Does anyone know how many North American contacts were made with ZS8T? > >Dick >-- >Dick Flanagan K7VC >[email protected] -- Dick Flanagan K7VC [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [email protected] 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 -----------------------------------------------------------
