[Fourlanders] Even a little pistol station can chase DX and be successful

[P.T. Corners (Bob)]

So, when chasing DX you have to never give up even if you're just a 
little pistol station with a wire and 100 watts.

My friend, Don KK4E, back in Georgia was on the phone with this new 
Okie, K4VBM Very Bad Memory, and we were chasing ZS8W.  We are about 900 
miles apart, so propagation for each of us is a bit different. Sometimes 
(less than more) each of us would decode the fox transmissions of ZS8W, 
but not at the same time, and not always all the streams.  But this 
allowed us both to transmit when one of us was decoding something to 
have a chance at a QSO.

And then something happened that I could never have imagined, both our 
calls showed up in the same Fox message (my friend Don getting his RR73 
and me getting my signal report)!  And then I started freaking when the 
Fox sent me another signal report and not the RR73 because not long 
before neither of us was decoding the Fox signals all the time, and 
sometimes only 1 of the 2 streams.  And the powers that be let us decode 
all the streams for that short time period.



My friend Don and I felt blessed to have made a ZS8W QSO with only 1 day 
left in the DXpedition.

So, don't give up.  Keep trying to the end.  You never know!

73 and good DX,

Bob
K4VBM (Very Bad Memory)

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