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Rick,
I get your point, but that only matters if you gotta get QSLs. A test without
even offering QSLs would allow one to KNOW whether oneself heard the station,
sufficient.
73, Glenn Hauser
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On Sat, 1/7/17, Rick Dau <[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry, DXers of the world, but it's high time that DX
tests be done away with....
Back in the day, some unscrupulous participants in the
hobby made it a practice of waiting about 2-3 weeks after
tests were conducted, looking through the pages of DX News,
DX Monitor, and other print publications, jotting down the
details of what OTHERS
were hearing, then sending their own faux reports based
from those details off to the testing stations. Very
often, engineers would happily mail back QSLs to the
offenders, totally unaware of what was going on.
Fortunately, a select few DID get wise to the
shenanigans being perpetrated and then began conducting
tests with the caveat that reports had to be mailed within a
scant few days (say, within a week or so) after the test, or
they would simply not reply to the report. This was, in
effect, to curtail the
cheating.
But with the progress of technology comes a downside.
Through reflectors such as these, along with message
boards, DX chatrooms (WHEN they work), and other means of
instant communication, the cheaters are once again seeing
the information that others are
posting without making their OWN efforts to hear the
stations. DX tests were fun while they lasted, but, IMHO,
they need to be put down.
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska
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[ABDX] <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 5:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ABDX] Re: Rackley on Synchronous AM
Boosters
To answer Todd`s question about anyone hearing KKOB Santa
Fe, recently
in my reports and DXLD:
Also, I have repeatedly called for a DX test to be arranged
on Santa Fe only, turning off the main Albuquerque
transmitter, however briefly (without of course, trying to
set it up, myself; maybe I would if I still lived in ABQ)
And now there is no CPC chairman.
Glenn
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