To address N7MAL's points:
(1): unenforceable
(2): ARRL disallow credit for dxpeditions? What complete and utter claptrap. Go and have a word with yourself.
Policing the idiots: Well I agree with you here, we seem to do little to try and catch these people. There was talk by G3SXW recently of setting up observation networks to try and DF the signals but that seems a tall order to me. The number of idiots in Europe seems to increase daily, and it's not just dxpeditions that get QRMed, it's any DX station. Most of the QRM signals seem to emanate from Eastern and Southern Europe. Most of the idiots do get bored and go away though. The first couple of days of the 3Y0X expedition there were a plethora of idiots, more on CW than on SSB. In short, I don't know how we cure that problem.
Critique of
operating schedule: well I take your point, but they were audible here well after sunrise. Power line noise prevents me hearing much on 80 and 160, but on 40 they were easily workable until 3-4 hours after sunrise, as is often that case at this part of the sunspot cycle. I think I worked them at about 0830 one morning on 40. You'll get a lot of comments from Europe saying they were working yet more Yanks or JAs when signals were peaking here, so I guess you can't please everyone.
I think these guys did a great job: all that planning, expense and risk, 80k plus QSOs etc. The expedition was well worth the wait and thanks for #333.
One question though. What happened to all the penguins? Do you have to pay extra for penguins? :-)
Dave G0OIL
N7MAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
N7MAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.73c.c. N1DG 3YØX Pilot
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