Topband: Split frequency working - a different DX perspective

[Steve Ireland]

Quoting Jim Jarvis <jimjarvis at verizon.net>:

    split operation for international QSO's
 > on topband is the only sane way to operate.  For me, anything that
 > forces the opposite is ignorant of reality......>


G'day

To offer a slightly different view from Herb, KV4FZ - although if I lived 
where Herb does geographically, I would do the same as him.

In VK6 - geographically very distant from the major 160m operating centres 
of Europe and North America - I rarely use split frequency operation - and 
so do other VK6.

The reason for this is that our signals are usually weak and easily 
missed/accidentally trodden on by stations in the major operating 
centres.  The pile-up on my frequency at least serves to alert stations 
that there is a DX station underneath it - and so I don't get trodden 
on/eaten by alligators.  When I try and work split frequency, it is only a 
matter of minutes before I get trodden on/eaten.

In contrast, Herb is loud in both Europe and North America and thus 
impossible to accidentally tread on.

If I was rare DX rather than common DX (which I am), then I would 
definitely work split, as the angry pileup would quickly tread on anyone 
who trod on me...

Vy 73

Steve, VK6VZ
   


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