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I have to agree with Tim, but! Would be nice if they have a messageboard to improve their operation. The reason they went on this expidition is for the excitment and not entirely for us so let's face it. Plus! If they want to earn a reputation and some bragging rights which is natural for most DXpiditions then this is the criticism, or advice that they may have to endure. It has nothing to do with others not funding the expedition but some people can me quite unreal. Anyway! hope we get to work them and sure their doing their best. Be patient all and happy DX'ing, 73! N2RRA Sent from my iPhone --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Anybody up for a Pacific trip?
I am game! If anyone is looking for an experienced accomplished contester and would like a young capable operator for muscle I'm your guy. I've been looking for a chance to join a contesting DX team and ready for the challenge. I think that a trip to Atoll or the American Samoa is at hand. Quick! 73, N2RRA **It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv000547) --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
RE: [DX-CHAT] Are CW ops getting older?
Glad this subject came up! Still more or less being considered young in this hobby at age 33 going on 23 I hold the highest regaurd for preserving the foundation of Amatuer Radio. Such as for CW for instance I think it's the most important mode just for our sole purpose which we can make great use of besides in emergency communications. Like many of us real CW operators if there were an emergency and we knew at the other end of the Red Cross line there were another Ham op. I would hope that if CW were my last hope at getting a message across i'd have a chance right? WRONG! I can't wait for them to load up HRD or some other type of program when I may have a few seconds or minute to get the code across. I'm a CW operator my response oh yeah! What type of keyer do you use? theirs Keyer! I use a keyboard What!! Folks! Just because you use a keyboard for CW does not make you CW operators unless you can receive and send CW with some sort of keyer. Any fool can send with a keyboard, but when put to test can you step up? My belief and point about the code and no code exams were always about the points I mentioned above. Plus! The fact that it was the most effcient mode and comes in handy every time. Those students people always made it about nostalgia or personal. So now that you have a keyboard and interface CW all of a sudden is the mode used mostly for many? Gee! I wonder why. 73! -Original Message- From: DAVE WHITE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 01, 2008 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx-chat@njdxa.org Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Are CW ops getting older? Ain't nobody getting any younger, Dave! At least if they are, he should patent his secret and sell it. On a serious point, I felt that it was always the older members of the hobby who wished to preserve cw as an entry criterion for the HF bands - something which I always considered to be ridiculous (no, I'm NOT trying to re-open the code/no-code debate). Interestingly, I always said that there was no way I'd ever mess about operating cw, and only did the test to get my ticket. The mode held no interest for me at all. But then one day I bought an all-mode TNC at a hamfest - actually to send/receive RTTY - so I hooked it up to my computer and started to use it. Incidentally it also worked for cw, so it rather got me into using the mode on the bands just out of interest. Strangely, I look at my log book these days and I'd say that cw is the mode that I use the most. As you imply, it's probably an age thing. I still send from the keyboard, though use Human Brain Mark #1 for decoding. More grey hairs - of which I now have many - means more cw operating, perhaps? I shall practice sitting on my porch, barking at passers-by and waving my stick at passing traffic in between sending with a bug key. Will I then be a fully-fledged, 100 percent cw op? .. cheers Dave G0OIL David Rollitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I recently made a few QSO's during the All Asia CW test, the exchange in the AA Test is RS(T) and Age for OM's. Having checked my contacts I found the average age was 49.1!! I wonder if anyone else checked their contacts this way. It will be interesting to do the same thing with the SSB test coming up ( I think) in September. 73 David G3XYP --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---= --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] 'tis the season
Merry Christmas to all and God Bless the World! The one and only season where most are helpful, giving, considerate, kind, loving, and good spirited. Wish this season ran the through course of years to come. Why only in this time of month that man kind could be more like this? Don't let politics, nor religion blind you, and darken what should remain pure, and white as snow. 73 to all and all a Happy Holidays around the world! N2RRA **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304) 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 http://njdxa.org
[DX-CHAT] Re: Mid-Atlantic QSO Party: 1600Z, May 12 to 0400Z, May 13
WA3VAW, Congratulations! Wish your son great fortune and success for the future. 73! N2RRA ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. 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 http://njdxa.org
Re: [DX-CHAT] Best BS7H quote I have seen
Very well said Dan! I agree 100%. Gud D.X. and 73! N2RRA Eric ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. 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 http://njdxa.org
Re: [DX-CHAT] BS7H INTO NE USA
Perhaps self discipline is a lost art. Certainly here in the UK, respect for other human beings are now a lost art, particularly in the cities where gangs of feral youths terrorize neighborhoods, vandalize anything in sight and stab of shoot each other. Education is long dead. Hello guys, I've been D.X.ing for about 16 years, and I couldn't agree more with the statement above. I sometime's feel we as the experienced hams are some what to blame a little for what's going on. Over the years I've seen, and heard many Elmer's , or more experienced hams not passing on proper operating procedural ham traditions to new hams. Nothing like I remember when I became a ham. Attitude's have changed, and everything because their afraid of being called a LID. Hah! Please! Some hams in the hobby 30-40 years want change so they've ignored proper operating edict cy for being hip, and cool with the new crowds that have no interest in R.F. Thus passing it too other hams down the line not having respect for other's and the hobbie. No different over sea's as well, and the d.x. cluster certainly has something to do with it but different subject to the whole respect thing. Very evident on VHF/UHF which if you think about it is where it all starts. This is my first response since I enrolled for receiving these e-mails. For the last 2 years all I do is read the e-mails we get, and read all the bashing going on. Surprise's me to see that so many are envious as too who hears them, and doesn't, and how many forget the oddity propagation exhibit's. All though regional propagation might be alike for ex: the U.K. having likeness propagation property's the New England state's here in the U.S. have. Like Southern, and Central Europe have compared to Southern, and central U.S. has. Even New York City, and Upstate New York where some have better chance at working d.x. just because of the altitude their at in upstate N.Y. also noting the low level of noise floor in comparison. We can go into axis of the earth, and Aurora over the North Pole to the central equatorial propagation properties. A good ham will be patient, and diligent. Calculating propagation, and knowing how to filter the noise. If intentional QRM'ing occur's there's not much one can do. Hmm! Wonder if Europe getting rid of CW, and U.S. getting rid of it has anything to do with the increase in malpractice operating and jamming? Everyone's prediction worst fear perhaps' coming true? Good Luck D.X. Guy's! N2RRA Eric ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. 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 http://njdxa.org
