Very well stated, Aart. I was going to say basically the same thing to Thomas, but your posting appeared first.
The tropical bands may be fading--slowly--, but there are still challenging targets for the persistent DXer. Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA -----Original Message----- From: Aart Rouw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:25 PM To: HCDX Mailing List Subject: Re: [HCDX] Tropical SW Bands Virtually Empty Thomas, I can not agree with you. Today there was also the report form the Bavarian DX camp from Michael Schnitzer. This shows there are still interesitng catches to be made on the TB bands. Of course, this is somewhat "high performance DX", but I can assure you there is still a lot of interesting stations out there, also for a more average listener. Sure, there is less choice than 5-10 years ago. Especially the number of LA stations (except Brasil and Peru) has decreased dramatically. PNG is still very much active, even on 90m, though often on irregular schedules. Of course the future does not look very bright for TB DX, but it is too early to declare this dead. Regards, Aart Rouw B�hl, Germany - ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
