> What was even more annoying was the following type of spot:
>
> DX 14000 HS0XXX Just called me
>
> This is REALLY useless since,
>
> A) I have no idea what frequency the station posting the spot is even
on.
> B) It does not convey ANY useful information.
> C) The possibility of this information resulting in me actually WORKING
> this multiplier is pretty small.
>
> It seemed to happen almost exclusively from large East coast M/S - M/M
who
> really should know better.
Hi all - I disagree with this, although these spots are obviously more
valuable when you have established a running frequency, and I suppose it
helps to be loud. I can remember several occasions within the past year,
while running Europe on 20 meters from New Hampshire, where a "14.000"
spot for an Asian showed up, I turned the beam north, and the needed mult
called me withing 2-3 minutes. We might not have heard each other with the
beam not turned that way. I suspect this phenomenon is even more
pronounced from a VERY loud station, where the DX may only be able to hear
a few US stations on the band, and he will find you quickly.
73 Stu KC1F@prodigy.net
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