Topband: TX5K

[Eddy Swynar]

Good Day All,

The superlative performance being executed currently on 160-meters by the TX5K expedition is, I feel, a tribute to the operators' style of:

(A) Sending their call sign REPEATEDLY after nearly each transmission;

(B) Separating their receive frequency from their transmitting frequency by a good 12-KHz;

(D) Announcing their listening frequency REPEATEDLY so as to leave no room for any doubt whatsoever, and,

(E) Engaging in a constant & REASONABLE CW SENDING---not too fast, not too slow---and NOT hitting any function key that instantaneously sends "...599-73-TX5K-QRZ" at some 50 WPM, as seems to be all the vogue these days.

Their proven successful pile-up technique in these ways should serve as a benchmark for future DX-peditions to pattern themselves after, IMHO...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ