Ron... be very, very careful.
First it's the soft core... you know... "I'll just see if I can work this
guy.... easy, I can give it up any time I want to". Then the rush of a new
one, followed by hard core DXing. And you can't give it up. You bank account
drains. You secretly read the DX columns in CQ. A subscription to Bernie's
Daily DX follows. Before you know it you are scanning the calls in the "Top
mode" and "Top Band" lists. Your buddies on 80M hear less and less of you
until you finally disappear from the rag chewing scene. Your friends notice
you hearing loss and your workmates notice you yawn a lot at your work. Your
life becomes focused on greylines.
It's an old familiar story. The spiral down hill into hard core DXing begins
quite innocently.
Be very careful Ron!
Psssst. Ya wanna buy a QSL mangers list from the 60s... real cheap?
73
Lee ZL2AL - ZL7AA, ZL8RI, ZL9CI, VE3OE
If you want finite limits - Try WAS or WAZ.
If you want a challenge - Try DXCC.
The wall starts around 300!
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Angle (K6KYJ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'DXR list' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 8:21 AM
Subject: [DXR] Motivation
> I am, at best, a softcore DXer. I do not collect cards and cannot afford
> to send cards except by request, and until a few weeks, had no idea how
> many or what countries that I have worked since returning to the HF bands
> in 1988.
>
> Still, I am making a renewed effort this season to increase my "countries
> worked" totals on all six bands with a four band dxcc within reach.
>
> But nothing may match this morning.
>
> "CQ DX NA LP de VQ9VK" perked up my ears while trying to make a sked with
a
> VU2 station. Not even sure of where VQ9 was at that moment, I called and
> was acknowledged on my third try. Yes, he got my call as K6KQJ, but my
> whole objective in this game is just being heard.
>
> When I did the path checks, the nifty new W6EL program indicated that I
> had just put a 14,878 mile QSO in the log book. Right along his and my
> graylines. On a hundred watts, a 20-yr old transceiver, and an E-W
> inverted dipole 45 feet high.
>
> It was a DX moment.
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