I remember having to sign N7US/5 when I lived in NM, which was a nuisance. Now I'm in IL. Which contests still require the portable designation? Jim N7US --Original Message-- I've lived in 3-land for
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I thought the whole point of DXing was ego-feeding. What else could it possibly be? Humanitarian? Financial? Fighting injustice? Ego-feeding works for me. :-) 73
OK. No argument. Then "ego gorging" works.... :-) In a message dated 4/11/2007 8:59:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, dezrat@copper.net writes: ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I thought the whole
I normally wouldn't chase them on other bands on RTTY except now to contribute to the AD1C RTTY top list. Let's all blame Jim!!! 73, Don AA5AU http://www.aa5au.com http://www.rttycontesting.com OK. N
OK, you got me. I single-handedly ruined RTTY DXing. ;-) 73 - Jim AD1C (292 worked RTTY since 02/1999) -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, <jjreiser
great work!! 73 john w8wej _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
Truth be told. Now I know why I'm fighting through bigger and bigger pileups to work a new rtty country. It's Jim's fault. (in this day and age....it's always someone's fault) today it's Jim's turn t
Not too many years ago it was considered poor operating practice to work a DXped on RTTY on more than one band, in order to give more guys a shot at working a rare one. However, with well-planned and
Or maybe the ARRL thought that the incremental cost of processing another award through the "DXCC Computer" could be more than offset by the incoming endorsement fees. DXCC is a losing money proposit
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- As Steven Colbert would say "yeah, but you ruined it in a GOOD way". Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Couldn't agree more. I've always thought 5BDXCC was the ruination of the Gentlemanly Sport of DXing. I have DXCC on four bands (accidentally) but if I ever accid
Bill Turner wrote: "I've always thought 5BDXCC was the ruination of the Gentlemanly Sport of DXing." I kindasorta agree, however, as long as there are award programs in place, regardless of the spons
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- That's my point. Before 5BDXCC and the explosion of other awards, I don't remember the ravenous behavior of the award-obsessed chasers. Back then, you worked a c
I'm not sure I agree with this Bill. I believe packet is the single biggest problem. Don't get me wrong, I *love* packet. But it gets EVERYONE into the same pileup almost simultaneously. QSX spots te
There are some WAS nets on the air, like the Century Club and the HHH net if it's still going. Those really are not bad things to have, especially when the sun spot cycle is not favoring Dx'ing on th
5BDXCC and "other awards" are not the root cause of the aberrant operating practices described in this thread. All these problems existed with the basic DXCC. The problems may be more prevalent and e
What it does do is everyone thinks they have to work the rare dx on 3 modes, on 6 bands unless you count the WARC bands also. One way of looking at it suggests that more different people would have a
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I agree that the problems existed before, but 5BDXCC and the other awards have multiplied the problem many times. Previously the lids only did their lid behavior
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- This can be a software problem as well, especially when using a spotting network. Some software will turn off the split mode when clicking on a spot. Until you g