A post of pure common sense if I may say so, Werner. The guys on the rocks are indeed doing an INCREDIBLE job. When I read a press update about them sitting there in complete darkness through the night, on their own and only 4 feet baove the water, unable to see any of the other ops, unable to see the boat and constantly in wind and salt spray really brought home what a hard time they're having. I met PS7JN at Dayton the other year and over several coffees he told me about St Peter and St Paul Rocks - which seem to be an only slightly larger version of Scarborough - and the hardships of operating from there. So hats off to the blokes putting on this expedition. It's just a shame that so many (mainly) southern European operators can't (or won't) operate with manners. Now given that that's always going to happen, I'm beginning to think that how the dxpedition operator handles the pileup really does have an effect on the behaviour of the unruly element in Europe. It's noticeable that the behaviour of people calling BH7H is much, much worse than those calling the VU7, N8S, Ducie Island, the first Chesterfield Reef operation, the VU4 expedition, Peter 1st, VK0IR, OH2YY's operation in 7O etc etc. Deliberate jamming is also worse. Why? Answers on the back of a postcard to HB9US ... :-) Dave G0OIL
"Werner H. Berli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Announcing 1 to 3 listening frequencies, alternating round robin seems a great alternative to the overwide spread. Another good operator in the recent VU7LD expeditidion announced the one frequenncy he was listening and had great success with it. No doubt the team is working very hard and is doing a great job. I am still trying to get through, but as it was said on this list, with the wide spread and so many operators calling before the current contact is finished, it is impossible to hear the station being worked. And this aside from the deliberate QRM on the DX freq. with all the outrageous profanities being exchanged. They had a CW and an SSB station on 20 working NA only. The NA and EU window seem to overlap startingat 13 UTC, so people get impacient and cause qrm. Maybe they could alternate and switch every hour, CW to NA SSB to EU, then CW to EU and SSB to NA? Right now I listen on 17m 18.130 good copy. The op is listening 138 to 150 working NA only, JA before and after, no EU. I still hope to make it 73 Werner, HB9US ---------------------------------------------------------- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options ----------------------------------------------------------
