Topband: 3B9EME

[DALE LONG]

Keith you are exactly right. Because it takes some days to check topband antennas and understand their performance, and the effects of propagation, often there is not sufficient time in the dxpedition.   And we have developed into a hobby of complainers. Dxpeditions are now being criticized because their online logs are less than perfect. Only a few years ago online logs did not exist and now we are using them to judge the success of the dxpedtion? Guys who have never ventured out of their air-conditioned shack, are complaining about the guys who have devoted their time and resources just to make the deserving happy.  Often they are operating through illness and discomfort, and fighting many obstacles that we do not understand. 

You said it best. 

"Be appreciative of the efforts of others to provide you with a "new one"!

73

Dale - N3BNA


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 From: VE7MID <ve7mid at telus.net>
To: 'topband' <topband at contesting.com> 
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 10:23 PM
Subject: Topband:  3B9EME
 

From experience, it is easy to say, "put up a beverage". I went to 7P8D with
the idea that would be the set-up but, on site, it was impossible. There is
a difference between having years to set up a station and days with limited
material to accomplish an effective low band station. 



We will have conducted two site visits and are planning for contingencies
for 3DA0ET. It is annoying to be criticized by comfortable "base" stations
for efforts on top band where we must depend for the assistance of others to
put up a top band antenna system which takes more time than their muti-band
high qso rate stations! Be appreciative of the efforts of others to provide
you with a "new one"!



73 Keith

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