Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Tom Wylie
Oh, I care passionately about working them all, especially as I have only TWO to get. My initial point, appears to have been missed, that how can a rock sticking out of the Ocean a few feet ever be classified as a Country or Entity? It just makes the whole thing stupid, like working light

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Zack Widup
I think it has happened more than once, in the history of DXCC, that someone found a new place they thought would qualify as a new country by the existing rules and also thought they could get there first, so they pushed to have that new country established on the list and then went and

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread WC7N
Hey Tom I like the Worked all phone booth award. Not many of those left in our country and it would be a challenge. I can just see setting up an HF station in a phone booth. Man the terrorist alert would go out in a hurry. Rod WC7N - Original Message - From: Tom Wylie [EMAIL

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Dan Zimmerman
The rarest entity in the worked all phone booths: http://www.deuceofclubs.com/moj/mojave.htm 73, Dan N3OX Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread n7ef
The idea that a rock is a country makes a LOT of sense to the country that owns it. You get the undersea oil rights for a radius of 100 miles or some such... Don N7EF -- Original message from Tom Wylie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- Oh, I care passionately about working

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Bob Coomler
And I'm still waiting for my QSL. D***!! Bob, W6RJC --- Ron Notarius WN3VAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the web page, sadly, the Mojave Phone Booth was removed and destroyed by PacBell circa 2000. I guess this puts it on the Deleted Phone Booths list? 73 From: Dan

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread HK3CW
Why didn't I get the QSL first if I was a contributor? Rob, HK3CW - Original Message - From: Bob Coomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? And I'm still waiting for my QSL. D***!! Bob, W6RJC --- Ron

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread WC7N
This is great. Any idea when it will be activated ? Rod WC7N - Original Message - From: Dan Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? The rarest entity in the worked all phone booths:

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2006-06-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about the worked all McDonalds {WAM} Award. Contacts must be with mobile stations only while they are waiting in the drive through line. How much for the list of all qualifying franchises, and would Micky D's sponsor our Dxpeditions? 73 , Duane,

[DX-CHAT] Fuel Pump Noise

2006-06-16 Thread Steve-KF2TI
Good afternoon, since losing the Jeep (15 mpg) for a Subaru Wagon (28+ mpg), I hve reinstalled my setup: Icom 706/turbo tuner/Little Targheel antenna (using Tri-Magnet mounts..I had to, no place to mount antenna brackets and I don't like those ball mount thingies, as the car washes keep

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Tom Wylie
Why dont they move it to a rock - like Alcatraz - would that make it a cell-phone? Groan :-[Tom / GM4FDM Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote: All kidding aside, if I lived out in that part of the West, I would be very tempted to visit the former site. I don't know how rare that county is, but

Re: [DX-CHAT] Fuel Pump Noise

2006-06-16 Thread Fred Stevens K2FRD
Steve, the RFI reflector at Contesting.org recently had a thread on this topic. http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/rfi . [Not so recently; I just checked. See next PP.] [Saved you some searching. Here's a summation of fuel pump noise topics: