Topband: Bouvet 3Y0K

[Wes Stewart]

 Golly, they made one 6 meter MFSK contact, what more do you want?  Must have been a big donor.  
Which brings up one recourse you have...vote with your wallet.
I'm not a rich guy but I used to donate generously to some expeditions before they happened.  I also am a member of INDEXA and NCDXF and annually donated a few extra bucks to them.  But when the members of the board on one of these foundations made it a personal piggy bank for an expedition they were members of, that stopped.
Clublog's statistics make if easy to see where expedition biases are after accounting for propagation.  The two expeditions you mention exemplify what I'm talking about.  (Not to say that I didn't work them on many slots, but it was often too difficult)
I now use OQRS (or equivalent) and if the expedition was well-run and fair, I kick in extra.
Wes  N7WS
    On Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12:44:34 PM MST, Steve Harrison <k0xp at k0xp.com> wrote:  
... The use of which will DEFINITELY preclude, and prevent, many, many 
of we CW ops from working them. We are already seeing this happen with 
the KP5 expedition, and saw it happen with 8R7X and V73WW last year. I 
will be astonished if the KP5s show up on 160 CW long enough to work 
many more than the paltry half dozen or so that they already notched up 
on 160 CW a week or more ago. Looks to me as if they're holding off on 
both 40M CW and 160M CW until the very last day or two, when conditions 
will suddenly plunge into the depths and almost nobody outside of 
groundwave range will be able to hear them  8-(

Steve K0XP


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