I accidentally discovered QRP at age 16 by killing the finals on my hand-me-down Hallicrafters HT-37 transmitter. Despite getting just 200 mW of output from the naked drivers, I said what the heck and worked a CW station 2500 miles away. Hooked! This was jaw-dropping, merit-badge-worthy DX, at least to me. The rest is long, twisted personal history.
Since then I've come to look at DX as relative. Any number of tragic consequences can give the operator a quantitative handicap: solar cycle minimum, mass coronal ejections, stubborn refusal to increase power or use a larger antenna, dead battery, too big a pile-up, chores at the wrong time, electrical defrocking of sanctified gear via lightning -- the list goes on. Yet so do we. There's an old saying I just made up: If conditions suck, DX is anything past line-of-sight. But in the spirit of potential acquiescence to the hammular hive-mind, I yield the floor to those who might argue an absolutist DX position. If your comments are as rhetorical as mine, feel free to send them only to me, for their entertainment value. No sense burning epic BTUs on off-topic topics, given that bitcoin and AI are doing a stellar job of that already. 73, Wayne N6KR -- Elecraft, Inc. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
