[Mldxcc] QSL Cards

[Chris Tate - N6WM]

Rick I needed Nepal also and its confirmation from this group will represent an ATNO for me.

Your right.  they are not gunning for US but rather glory in EU, and particularly EI with a side of JA/BA.

So what is a DX er to do..?  try and be the 2%.  I studied the prop charts.  there are some oddball 15/17m openings in the 0100 timeframe.  I saw a spot for 17m and on a whim clicked the spot, there they were, Q5 in W6.  They had a huge JA pile up so strategy 1 worked then I employed strategy 2, contest mode and Tail ended a JA QSO to drop my call with a full Gallon.  and that was the snag of the week.  he came right back to me.  I told him he was Q5 in W6 suggesting JA QRX.. he said thanks and continued to work JA's.  Others I tipped off on NCDXC said they thanked them for listening for West Coast US, and the response was... we weren't.

~C./WM


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From: Mldxcc [mldxcc-bounces at contesting.com] on behalf of Rick WA6NHC [wa6nhc at comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mldxcc] QSL Cards

Other than Ogasawara, there was only one JA card.  I generally don't
even try for JA, I have enough in that deck and I'm ashamed that I don't
QSL as faithfullly.  ;-)  It's almost as bad as collecting W6 cards.

I've been able to get two ATNO this week; 9G5X (Ghana) and 5U5R on two
bands (Niger), plus added to the Ivory Coast collection with TU7C but
Nepal is clearly, solidly IGNORING other than EU/AS (look at the Clublog
stats, the few NA worked are likely accidental).  The percentage of NA
has risen to 2% and if we're not being ignored, the 'collection of well
known DXers' aren't bothering with using any propagation at all.  I'm
not alone in the frustration, it would be new to me.  Yet they are
(online) BRAGGING about how they're paying attention to everything (the
stats disprove that soundly).

Africa has been a mid-afternoon (our time) affair with the current
conditions.  A few have worked them on 160M (about 1 UTC) but pay
attention from ~3PM - Midnight local and you should be able to snag
them.  Both TU7C and 5U5R were on 160 last night, I saw stations working
them... not even ESP here.  With a slight increase in solar activity,
Thursday looks promising (17th, St Patty's day).

For sucky conditions, DXing is still fun and I'm REALLY building up an
interest in Top Band.

Now for a rant; how do we get folks to understand USE the DX Code of
Conduct?  There are LOADS of really bad ops on all bands; DQRM has risen
it's head... How do we fix this?

Rick nhc


On 3/15/2017 1:00 PM, Dennis Moore wrote:
> Very nice. From the bureau along with 30 JA cards?
>
> I don't have any of the Africas going on right now, I can't hear them.
> Go get 'em.
>
> Dennis NJ6G
>
>
> On 3/15/2017 12:55, Rick WA6NHC wrote:
>> Yay, the bird of QSL has landed with another batch!
>>
>>
>> Some of the better places are ZL7 Chatham (5 QSOs); FM/ Martinique
>> (2); T2 Tuvalu (2); 3D2 Fiji (2); V73 Marshall (7 over 2 cards); V5/
>> Namibia (2); T32 Eastern Kiribati (6); VK9 Cocos (Keeling) (1); TX3
>> Chesterfield Reef (6); A25 Botswana (1, nice Giraffe pic); FR1
>> Reunion (1) and for really tasty icing on that cake; EP2A Iran (3)
>> which literally took YEARS to finally obtain.
>>
>> Then the K1N cards (16) came in ; JD1/5 Ogasawara Island (2); CU2
>> Azores (1, Martti Lane) and OH4 Finland.  Most but not all of these
>> already had LOTW confirmations, but I've taken an interest in
>> gathering cards again.
>>
>> It's been a good year and Christmas in March!  Around the world on
>> radio!
>>
>> How's everyone doing with Africa (3 teams there now)... any luck with
>> Nepal (9N7EI) or Bangladesh (S21ZED)?
>>
>> Rick nhc
>>
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