Doooooood!!! You deserve a Pulitzer Prize, or the Warwick Prize for writing or SOMETHING for that gem! Damn, Man - spot on!!!
> From: wh...@hawaii.rr.com > To: topband@contesting.com > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:26:49 -1000 > Subject: Re: Topband: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 3Y0IOF > > HAHAHAHAHAH > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > After a lot of negotiation we are pleased to announce a multinational team > of twelve is to undertake a Dxpedition to Bouvet Island from 25 March 2013 > to 5 April 2013 using the callsign 3Y0IOF. > > We will be operating 24/7 with five stations covering all bands 160m-10m. > > We understand that Dxpeditions are all about you - the DX operator - > therefore we are pleased to announce some exciting new innovations. > > We appreciate many of you feel you should not have to make any effort to > work us. Accordingly, we are offering you the chance to call us on the > telephone when you are ready for a QSO. That's right, we will give you a > phone number and when you are ready you can ring us and we will immediately > cease to work the pile up and call you on a frequency of your choice. Not > only that, we will also ensure an email is sent to you directly after the > QSO to confirm you are in the log. Furthermore, we are organizing a team of > experts who, if you wish, will fly in and set up your rig on the required > frequency, connect the antenna for you and make sure the heating or > ventilation is on so it is nice and warm or cool in your shack as the case > requires. Don't worry about propagation. We will make sure there is some > between us as we understand that is our responsibility and it's our fault if > there isn't. > > If that is not for you then don't worry we are just as happy to work you in > a pile up. We realize that we will need to operate in accordance with your > operating habits so therefore we will understand if you call over the top of > another station we are trying to work, or when we are specifically calling a > part of the world you do not reside in, or if you are simply calling > aimlessly or while we are transmitting, or even if you call when you cannot > hear us. We will do our best to work you despite all this and yes we know > it's our fault if you do not make it into the log. > > We wish to acknowledge the value Frequency Cops bring to a Dxpedition so to > recognize this we are going to specifically publicize some times when we > will arrange for some operators to deliberately call us on our frequency > instead of split. Frequency Cops can even register their availability with > us to help us ensure these periods get maximum uptake by the Frequency Cop > community. During these periods the Frequency Cops will be able to say or > send "up up!" to their hearts content. (Note: we will make sure we tell the > pile up to listen up and not down as the recent PT0S Dxpedition has taught > us that Frequency Cops don't know how to send "down" in CW). > > We also don't want the "tuner uppers" to feel left out and like them we feel > dummy loads are completely overrated. So when we are ready to transmit on a > band we will give them the opportunity to tune up on our frequency before we > start working the pile up. Each period will start with us sending our > callsign and "QDL" ("Quick Dummy Loaders") so they will know when to > commence tuning up on us. We will allow for at least five minutes for this > as we know how important it is for the tuner uppers to make sure their > finals are good and ready. We acknowledge if they go bang it's our fault. > Depending on demand we will every now and then send "QDL" while working a > pile up so any tuner uppers late to the party can tune up on us as well. > > Unfortunately we will not have cluster access while we are on Bouvet but we > know this will not stop you posting announcements and comments on the > cluster about our Dxpedition. Some suggestions for you to try include saying > what band you want us to QSY to or mode to operate on, the quality of our > ops and the usual "loud", "can't hear them here", "thanks for 7th band" or > "yee hah" comments. Likewise as we noted above we understand it's our fault > if you cannot work us and therefore we accept in that case you will post on > the cluster calling us the worst Dxpedition ever. > > We can't wait to be of service to you. > > The 3Y0IOF Team > > _______________________________________________ > Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com