can't work em if you can't hear them! GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan
On 8/9/2011 10:22 AM, Tony Estep wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Paul VanOveren<p...@nf8j.com> wrote: > >> ... all 40 DX Zones... > > ======== > It took them a long time to finally get their 40th zone, which ironically > was Zone 34, the zone in which they are located. The regulars in that zone > are ST2AR and SU9VB, but for whatever reason neither one has worked ST0R. > They have a single call in the log from 34, SU1SK. > > In the most recent QST, the editorial was devoted to trying to figure out > how many hams there are in the world. The figures are soft, because not all > countries furnish data, but their estimate was that there may be about 2 > million licensed stations, with a somewhat larger number of individual hams. > Of these, a substantial number are VHF-only licenses. As of this morning, > ST0R has worked 27,000+ different calls. This may provide a rough count of > the number of hams who care about DX, since it's a new one for everybody. > Comparing this to the total, one might conclude that fewer than 2% of hams > are DX chasers. Note that the number of QSOs is 6.5x the number of calls > worked! Guys are working them on many bands/modes. > > > Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ 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
