Re: [DX-NEWS] Removing cats to protect birds backfires on Macquarie Island
At least no-one who's marooned there will starve. Rabbit pie, anyone? cheers Dave G0OIL --- On Tue, 13/1/09, Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu wrote: From: Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu Subject: [DX-NEWS] Removing cats to protect birds backfires on Macquarie Island To: dx-news@njdxa.org Date: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009, 6:10 PM By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Michael Casey, Ap Environmental Writer – Tue Jan 13, 9:18 am ET BANGKOK, Thailand – It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds. But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers said Tuesday. Removing the cats from Macquarie caused environmental devastation that will cost authorities 24 million Australian dollars ($16.2 million) to remedy, Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic Division and her colleagues wrote in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_rabbit_infestation_1 -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS 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-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-NEWS] BS7H
A post of pure common sense if I may say so, Werner. The guys on the rocks are indeed doing an INCREDIBLE job. When I read a press update about them sitting there in complete darkness through the night, on their own and only 4 feet baove the water, unable to see any of the other ops, unable to see the boat and constantly in wind and salt spray really brought home what a hard time they're having. I met PS7JN at Dayton the other year and over several coffees he told me about St Peter and St Paul Rocks - which seem to be an only slightly larger version of Scarborough - and the hardships of operating from there. So hats off to the blokes putting on this expedition. It's just a shame that so many (mainly) southern European operators can't (or won't) operate with manners. Now given that that's always going to happen, I'm beginning to think that how the dxpedition operator handles the pileup really does have an effect on the behaviour of the unruly element in Europe. It's noticeable that the behaviour of people calling BH7H is much, much worse than those calling the VU7, N8S, Ducie Island, the first Chesterfield Reef operation, the VU4 expedition, Peter 1st, VK0IR, OH2YY's operation in 7O etc etc. Deliberate jamming is also worse. Why? Answers on the back of a postcard to HB9US... :-) Dave G0OIL Werner H. Berli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Announcing 1 to 3 listening frequencies, alternating round robin seems a great alternative to the overwide spread. Another good operator in the recent VU7LD expeditidion announced the one frequenncy he was listening and had great success with it. No doubt the team is working very hard and is doing a great job. I am still trying to get through, but as it was said on this list, with the wide spread and so many operators calling before the current contact is finished, it is impossible to hear the station being worked. And this aside from the deliberate QRM on the DX freq. with all the outrageous profanities being exchanged. They had a CW and an SSB station on 20 working NA only. The NA and EU window seem to overlap startingat 13 UTC, so people get impacient and cause qrm. Maybe they could alternate and switch every hour, CW to NA SSB to EU, then CW to EU and SSB to NA? Right now I listen on 17m 18.130 good copy. The op is listening 138 to 150 working NA only, JA before and after, no EU. I still hope to make it 73 Werner, HB9US -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options -- -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
Re: [DX-NEWS] BS7H in western EU on 17m
To be honest, I'd have expected BS7H to be easier to work than it is, though that's not been due to propagation. A tiny rock surrounded by 2000 miles of salt water should put a decent signal out, and so far it has done here into Nottinghamshire. What's dismayed me has been the huge amount of deliberate QRM from Europe. On 14185 the other day there was a very professional jamming job done, sounding like the jamming that the old Soviet Union used to do on the BBC and VOA broadcasts. It seemed like 9 bands of tones that constantly varied in frequency and strength. Then there was the white noise, and the CQs from IK1JUO or someone pretending to be him. On 30m CW last night there were the usual dits, tuners and whistles, and frequency cops telling each other to QSY, f**k off etc, but also someone sending text for several hours. Mostly this has come from a due east beam heading. This is without doubt the worst deliberate QRM I've heard. But why? Could it be that the splits are SO large, operating patters so random and the geographical areas of the world worked are seemingly so senseless (working JAs during short NA windows and EU windows etc) that those people who react badly to frustration have done so early and in style? Personally I have a punchbag and some boxing gloves hung up in the stable and when I get pissed off I take it out that way. Last night the split on 20m cw was from 14025 to about 14100 and after several hours I got them on 14052. Is this really necessary? Perhaps some of the jammers were other band users who'd been blasted off their frequencies. I don't excuse such actions but it's easy to see how some DXpeditions get a bad reputation. If it's the same tonight on 30m, I'll just watch the Liverpool v Chelsea game on tv. Dave G0OIL Werner H. Berli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Good signal from BS7H on 17m SSB this AM ard 8-9UTC and huge EU pile. At about 08:50UTC the Op announced: I can hardly copy any of you, I think I qsy to 20m He always just said BS7H listening up. What about all those various techniques for the DX to segregate a pileup into manageable chunks? Hope to get through but we have all of eastern EU, Russia China in front of us. I thought Swains would be difficult and Scarborough would be easy. But Swains was childs play compared to what we have now. 73 de Werner, HB9US -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options -- -- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options --
