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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:28
PM
Subject: [DX-NEWS] Xpedition
Recommendations
I would like to make the following 2 xpedition
recommendations:
Number One:
All National and International Amateur Radio Regulatory
authorities immediately ban the use of the words UP & LID during any
Amateur Radio transmissions. Those 2 words need to be given the classification
of the ultimate in profanity.
Number Two:
The ARRL immediately no longer should consider any
xpeditions for DXCC or any other credit. I have been at this for roughly 50
years and this 3YØX xpedition has topped them all for BØZØ and MØRØN
activities. It gets worse and worse with every xpedition. It is no longer a
handful of guys trying to disrupt, it is a dozen(or more) per band. I've heard
comments, and combinations of profane comments, I don't remember hearing even
when I was in the Army. The guys who are doing this are not in a vacuum,
we are not doing any policing, but instead good/nice guys are being 'sucked'
into the fray.
This xpedition also helped amplify some of the problems. Yes
they did a 'bang-up' job, and yes they did it under horrible, grueling,
conditions. But, they also added to the 'on-the-air' problems by wasting
hours upon hours on 160, 80, & 40 trying to work Europe after 0700Z
when all of Europe is in bright sunlight. My special all-time favorite is the
expedition trying to work CW during the ARRL CW contest.
73
c.c. N1DG 3YØX Pilot
