Re: [DX-NEWS] Xpedition Recommendations

[Jerry Keller]

From another perspective,  I thought the 3Y0X ops were pretty darned good, and they were certainly the best ops on Peter 1 this week.... in fact, the best I've ever heard from there 8^).   If you could hear them at all, the pileups were workable if you were patient and used good technique. The "cops" were annoying as usual, but not more so this time than other times, and they are easily ignored. UP is sometimes helpful to the guy who forgets what VFO he's on, and LID is a rather mild epithet compared to some of the others available. Unfortunately, we hear the other, nastier kind of "profanity" everywhere today, and while it's not pleasant, it's not as shocking on the radio as it once was. I still dislike it and find it an embarrassment to ham radio, but it's nothing to start cancelling DXCC credit over or getting excited about..    What's important is that we were all priveleged to be witnesses to a daring feat by some of the most courageous, intrepid DXpeditioners in amateur radio history. They honored us all.  Peter 1 is not a vacation spot. It may well be one of the most dangerous, unpredictable environments on earth.  All that would have been needed to turn this excellent adventure into a terrible disaster is for that storm to have continued and get worse, so the helicopter couldn't fly at all. Storms of that magnitude and intensity.... with high winds and huge seas that last for weeks... are very common in that area. Nobody should forget that every one of the 3Y0X guys put their LIVES on the line for this one.   I think they deserve a little more appreciation and a little less armchair whining.   73,  Jerry K3BZ         ----- Original Message ----- From: N7MAL To: dx-news@njdxa.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:28 PM Subject: [DX-NEWS] Xpedition Recommendations I would like to make the following 2 xpedition recommendations: Number One: All National and International Amateur Radio Regulatory authorities immediately ban the use of the words UP & LID during any Amateur Radio transmissions. Those 2 words need to be given the classification of the ultimate in profanity. Number Two: The ARRL immediately no longer should consider any xpeditions for DXCC or any other credit. I have been at this for roughly 50 years and this 3YØX xpedition has topped them all for BØZØ and MØRØN activities. It gets worse and worse with every xpedition. It is no longer a handful of guys trying to disrupt, it is a dozen(or more) per band. I've heard comments, and combinations of profane comments, I don't remember hearing even  when I was in the Army. The guys who are doing this are not in a vacuum, we are not doing any policing, but instead good/nice guys are being 'sucked' into the fray.   This xpedition also helped amplify some of the problems. Yes they did a 'bang-up' job, and yes they did it under horrible, grueling,  conditions. But, they also added to the 'on-the-air' problems by wasting hours upon hours on 160, 80, & 40 trying to work Europe after 0700Z when all of Europe is in bright sunlight. My special all-time favorite is the expedition trying to work CW during the ARRL CW contest. 73     c.c. N1DG 3YØX Pilot MAL       N7MAL BULLHEAD CITY, AZ http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm http://geocities.com/n7mal/ Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia