[DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread Crownhaven
Do we think there are just an entire generation of DXers out there who are using CW programs and can't actually copy CW??? I can't think of any other explanation. "Up" isn't hard to figure out. Or do they just not know how to use their radios?? Steve, N4JQQ

Re: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread John Carobine - WB8RFB
Logic dictates that the former rather than the latter is the case.  I think we've all forgotten a time or two to engage the second VFO for split operation, but the light bulb usually goes on in just a few minutes or less.  The current trend of calling on top of the DX seems to indicate there a

Re: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread Crownhaven
There was an article in the latest QST that spoke to this. I hope everyone read it. Steve, N4JQQ John Carobine - WB8RFB wrote: Logic dictates that the former rather than the latter is the case. I think we've all forgotten a time or two to engage the second VFO for split operation, but t

Re: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread Elmar PD3EM
Hi all, Unfortunately I don't have the QST here to read the article. A lot of chances to work a DX or DX-pedition are ruined by "hams" that don't listen before they TX. It's happening in CW and all the other modes. I call those operators Crocodiles: Big mouth and very little ears! Every

Re: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread Dave Gomberg
At 14:17 10/23/2011, Elmar PD3EM wrote: A lot of chances to work a DX or DX-pedition are ruined by "hams" that don't listen before they TX. Here's a mail I sent to my local club and NCDXC a few days after Pacificon: The reminder to LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN that I was given at Pacificon worked

Re: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread DAVE WHITE
It's astonishing (to me at least) that so few callers in pileups actually try to listen to the pileup and figure where the DX is listening. I thought the trick was as old as the hills: DX in the left ear, pileup in the right ear with a slightly wider filter, apply Human Ear Mk 1 to find whe

Re: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread Don Berger
S! All this helpful information will take it harder for the "deserving" who have already figured it out. Don K1vsk - Original Message - From: "Dave Gomberg" To: "DX Chat" Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Up At 14:17 10/23/2011, Elmar PD3E

Re: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread Todd Ruby
Everybody's worthwhile comments are on the money, but at the end of the day it's just plain common sense. 73 Todd WB2ZAB On Oct 23, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Don Berger wrote: > > S! All this helpful information will take it harder for the > "deserving" who have already figured it ou

RE: [DX-CHAT] Up

2011-10-23 Thread Peter W2IRT
-Original Message- It's astonishing (to me at least) that so few callers in pileups actually try to listen to the pileup and figure where the DX is listening. I thought the trick was as old as the hills: DX in the left ear, pileup in the right ear with a slightly wider filter, apply Hu

[DX-CHAT] Clublog/Leaderboiard run AMOK??

2011-10-23 Thread Gary K9GS
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