Amen!
Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nick W9UM wrote:
I've just looked at the most recent "Most Wanted" list from clublog.org. I
can't believe ZS8 is number 26 on the list. I need two to have them all, P5
and ZS8 and that's after 42 years of trying. I couldn't hear Marti from P5,
worked Romeo though (lol), and never heard the last ZS8 on any band. This
is the black hole of Calcutta for the midwest.
Carl N4AA does a very good job compiling a most needed list every year see:
http://dxpub.net/MOST-WANTED-SURVEY.html
If you look at top ten or twenty, many of these entities have not been
on the air for YEARS. So it's expected that they would rank as highly
as they do. ZS8 is ranked a lot higher (more needed) in this list
than on ClubLog.
I worked ZS8M on 25 July 2010, on 40 SSB, running 100W to a multi-band
vertical, from Colorado. Around that time period, he seemed to show up
at the same time each night, just before his local sunrise. I had to
listen loud, as did he, but we exchanged 55 reports. If you could
hear him, you probably had a chance to work him. And if you missed
him one night, you could try again the next.
Longevity and persistence pays. Some countries which were impossible
in the past, like Albania, are not so rare today. Yet others like
Turkmenistan (EZ) have disappeared from the airwaves.
If it were easy, it wouldn't be as fun or as rewarding.
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