I am astonished by the number of ham DXpeditions who are also operating on 11m 'freeband'.
For example, the recent ham DXpedition to The Gambia appears to have also operated on 11m as 118AT/DX with freeband QSLs to 310AT102 (aka YL3CW). These callsigns apparently assigned by the Alfa Delta organization in Italy. I've heard that many, many other ham DXpeditions also fire up on 11m 'freeband' (Temotu, Chesterfield, East Timor, etc.). Icom France is even financially supporting freeband DXpeditions which means they must be selling a lot of ham gear to freebanders. Casual Websurfing will reveal that the freebanders are perhaps even more active than hams in mounting DXpeditions. And going to places (like VU7, YVO, SV/a) that hams can't easily go. And tagging along on a lot of ham DX outings. Is this the DX equivalent of Napster? What does this mean for our DXing hobby in the long run? Bill AA6TT ------------------------------ William H. Hein, AA6TT 10 Clark Road Topsham VT 05076-3086 USA tel 802/584-4317 ------------------------------- http://www.AA6TT.com email [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN IM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems, etc DX-NEWS http://njdxa.org/dx-news DX-CHAT: http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX NEWS items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news%40pro-usa.net -------------------------------------------------------
