Everybody's worthwhile comments are on the money, but at the end of the day it's just plain common sense.
73 Todd WB2ZAB On Oct 23, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Don Berger <dberger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Shhhhhhhhhhhh! All this helpful information will take it harder for the > "deserving" who have already figured it out. > Don > K1vsk > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Gomberg" <da...@wcf.com> > To: "DX Chat" <dx-chat@njdxa.org> > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:02 PM > Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Up > > >> >> At 14:17 10/23/2011, Elmar PD3EM wrote: >>> A lot of chances to work a DX or DX-pedition are ruined by "hams" that >>> don't listen before they TX. >> >> Here's a mail I sent to my local club and NCDXC a few days after Pacificon: >> >> >> The reminder to LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN that I was given at Pacificon worked >> great for me this AM. >> T32C was on 40m SSB and had a pretty good pileup. 40m does not work well >> for me, I think it is a feed-line >> issue because my screwdriver tunes beautifully on all bands but 40m. Anyway, >> hearing the pileup made me >> think my best strategy was to listen, and I started to hear him complaining >> about his QSOs getting QRMed >> by other deserving calling and calling. Then he said, "Give me a second, I >> am going to check around". He >> had been working simplex and I took this as a clue he was planning to start >> working split. So I set my radio >> to split and VFO A to his old frequency, and the mouse cross hairs (I run a >> flex3K) to VFO B. When he came >> back he said "I am going to start working split, QSX 7180" and in 2-3 >> seconds I clicked on 7180 and hit the >> foot pedal, he came back as I was the only one that fast and I got him first >> call (can't use my amp on 40m, >> the SWR is too high). It was a delight and a triumph for LISTENING. Thank >> you all..... >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959 >> All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to >> >> imail...@njdxa.org >> In the message body put either >> unsubscribe dx-chat >> >> or >> subscribe dx-chat >> >> This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org >> ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to > > imail...@njdxa.org > In the message body put either > unsubscribe dx-chat > > or > subscribe dx-chat > > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
