I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-)
Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > *Tony, > > I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually > ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask > "the station ending in Tango your call?" and they do this with almost every > call and most of the time on all bands. > > Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls > and I am not that far away from them by distance. > > You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using > K3's > > :-) > * > On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep <estept...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong >> for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st >> most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, >> although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been >> too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org >> >> Tony KT0NY >> >> >> -- >> http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > > > -- > *Gary* > *Start the day off slow, then taper off.........* > K3 #679 > KPA500FT #18 > KAT500FT 007 > P3 #1629 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
