Pirating is not very extensive, but it is a problem for DXpeditions, because those unfortunate DXers who work a pirate often blame the DXpedition for sloppy work. The K7C DXpedition is a good case in point: Quite a few DXers told stories that we believe...they truly made a good QSO with "K7C" but the QSO does not appear in the K7C radio log. The log is not at fault--apparently the DXers worked pirates.
One answer to pirates is real-time online log display, of the kind we did with DXA on K7C. Very soon after you worked the real K7C (5 minutes or so), you saw confirmation on the DXA window (the "greenies"). If you worked a pirate, that confirmation would not come, since the pirate cannot give the confirming greenies. Properly used, a real-time log display would almost totally eliminate pirates as a source of lost QSOs. Bob KK6EK > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Dougherty > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 12:46 PM > To: Charles Harpole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: dx-chat@njdxa.org > Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] will this help? > > At 05:25 AM 10/07/2006, Charles Harpole wrote: > >Will this help? > >If a DXpedition station gave out serial numbers, > incrementing for each > >QSO (like some contests ), would that retard pirates? A > pirate could > >give out serial numbers, too, but could he ever get so close in > >sequence to the real DX to make confusion? Also, would > serial numbers > >on the incoming QSL card requests make hand log searching easier? > > I could see that slowing a pileup down to a crawl, to be > perfectly honest -- and to what end? Is call pirating really > a major problem for DXpeditions? It might make QSLing a tad > easier, but I think trying to get everyone to understand > what's being done might be an exercise in futility, and if > you think pileups are bad NOW, I'd hate to see what would > happen with serial numbers. > > In this age of online logs for major DXpeditions, if I don't > see my call show up within 2 or 3 days of a QSO on a needed > band I just make another Q. > > > > Cheers, > > Peter, > W2IRT > > > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems > http://njdxa.org/dx-chat > > To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org > > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org > > > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
