Tom Childers, N5GE, wrote:
IMHO, Just as important as a good antenna is not relying on DX clusters to
find
contacts for you. Tune the bands (slowly) and look for those weak signal
stations. They are there, and you can't always depend on the other guys to
find
them for you. Nobody else in the whole wide world can hear the signals you
hear
at you QTH the same as you do.
Back before clusters we did a lot more QSX than TX, because we were doing a
lot
of tuning to find stations to rag chew with. That made QSOs more
pleasurable
when we found them. Good QSOs are still like good meals. Rushing through
either, reduces the enjoyment.
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IMHO DX clusters have not only taken away many of the skills required to
work 'new ones', but they can make it very difficult to ragchew with a DX
station who would like to ragchew, as Tom says. It seems to me FWIW that
once a DX station is spotted a howling mob arrives on frequency, many of
whom cannot hear the DX station but keep calling anyway.
End of beef!
Happy New Year everyone!
73,
Geoff
GM4ESD
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