98% of the operators going to rare & semi-rare entities are very good
at what they do. 99% of the problems with these operations are caused by us, the
callers, by not following DXpeditions instructions & requests, callers not
knowing there own call signs, call area, country or continent, 20 people
screaming up, lid, or 59 to some guy that forget to check which VFO he was on,
etc.. Thats what really slows the rate down.
Its like a child saying they didnt get good grades,
because it was the teacher fault. They wont admit that they didnt pay
attention, follow instructions or study.
Most of us, including myself forget that these ops are typically in
extremely hot or cold climates, sleeping in tents, constant generator noises,
running to filling generators, using temporary stations/antennas, physically and
mentally drained from hauling, setting up and anticipating breakdown, sleep
deprived, constant buzz saw noise of thousands constantly calling and fitting
off insects and rodents. With all that, they must be thrilled to hear, what
about 2s you skipped over us, why are working JAs instead of NA, is this an
SSB operation only - why, you worked eight 1s and only six 2s, your splits to
wide, can you go to 12 CW right now I need you there, listen for my friend he's
going to call you next, are you going to use LoTW, etc. by of a bunch of guys sitting in their
comfortable shacks.
Whoever is going or pay the bills should have the
final word on how they want to run THEIR operation. All we should say
to them is; thank you for being there, I appreciate your sacrifice, expense
and what you're doing for us.
73
Pete N2LM
- Original Message -
From: Dan Zimmerman N3OX
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:15
AM
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] How do we make
better DXers?
The US call districts are still mostly populated by the right
numbers,though this is a good point, especially when taken
worldwide.Calling one 1 and then one 2 and one 3 and so forth has the
advantageof NOT taking into account propagation (you're not trying to get
only1's, 2's, 3's before the band closes)What it does do if done
correctly is slashes the pileup size onaverage by a factor of TEN and
makes the other 9 numbers very patientbecause they know that in a few
QSO's they get their chance.They can, as Charlie said, go get some
coffee, or they can spend thenext nine QSO's listening and coming up with
a calling strategy. Ittakes the pressure off. It's less stressful
than taking ten or twentyfrom each district as propagation fades
out. Having workedDXpeditions that are using this method, I think
it's a great way tothin a pileup. Since a lot of successful pileup
breaking is listeningand thinking, this gives you 9 out of every 10 QSO's
to work on thatinstead of yelling into the
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