Gary, The operator himself is a large part of the equation I believe, but then again they have very good operators.......................
We have 9 days to go and they way they are knocking out the Q's you will undoubtedly do well in a few more days on the WARC bands. They will be calling CQ and falling asleep at the mike hihi 73, Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > (TIC)....well all I can say is that is not working...:-) > > I was very surprised to hear very good operators NOT being able to > distinguish call signs over and over again. > > I thought it was me so I went up to listen in the pileup from JA and granted > they are sometimes S9+20 with the 'weaker' ones @ S9 BUT I am able to hear > several call signs clearly and I wrote them down as I listened. > > I mentioned this to another K3 owner with 59 years experience (I'm a relative > newbie at this) and he cam back after several minutes and made the same > comment. > > Whilst I don't want to come across as too biased, I was just making an > observation based on my perception. I will say that here their audio is > excellent and the operators are extremely patient and polite. So Kudo's to > all the operators I have heard so far. > > I do find it interesting when I think back to some recent Dxpeditions and the > way the operators could grab full call signs and were logging stations > quickly. From memory most of these were using K3's and the pileups were > pretty chaotic as usual. > > Worked them on 80/20/15 and 10M but the WARC bands are proving problematical > for me with just a dipole to work with against the pileup..:-( > > 73 > > On 11 September 2012 07:29, Bob K6UJ <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig > for dxpeditions and decided > to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of > improving their image. :-) > > > Bob > K6UJ > > > > > On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > *Tony, > > > > I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually > > ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask > > "the station ending in Tango your call?" and they do this with almost every > > call and most of the time on all bands. > > > > Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls > > and I am not that far away from them by distance. > > > > You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using > > K3's > > > > :-) > > * > > On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong > >> for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st > >> most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, > >> although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been > >> too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org > >> > >> 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:[email protected] > >> > >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > *Gary* > > *Start the day off slow, then taper off.........* > > K3 #679 > > KPA500FT #18 > > KAT500FT 007 > > P3 #1629 > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > -- > Gary > Start the day off slow, then taper off......... > K3 #679 > KPA500FT #18 > KAT500FT 007 > P3 #1629 > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
