On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote:
> You are trying to make too much sense out of it... ============ I think Ron sums it up very neatly. If you examine any kind of DXing too closely it probably doesn't make much sense. Nonetheless, it's fun and can be compelling -- the pictures of stations and antennas in ON4UN's books reveal that all over the world hams go to extreme lengths to work DX. I'm a half-hearted QRP op myself. I've worked DXCC twice with QRP, once with my K2 and once with a Flex-1500. The first 100 are easy, because there are about that many countries on the air all the time with good signals into Missouri, but after that it gets kinda sticky, and I lose interest. Dave G3YMC has stuck with it, using only a 60-foot wire in his yard to work more than 200, so he's one of the QRP DX heroes. At another extreme, I remember seeing a web page about a ham who had over 300 with 5 watts; he had a huge antenna setup worthy of a multi-contest station. So it all depends on one's own inexplicable proclivities. 73, Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
