Comments on: DX Success http://www.nt7s.com/blog/2009/10/dx-success/ Emanations from Amateur Radio Station NT7S Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NT7S http://www.nt7s.com/blog/2009/10/dx-success/comment-page-1/#comment-110 NT7S Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:34:14 +0000 http://www.nt7s.com/blog/?p=443#comment-110 I've never even come close to working a pileup on first call, so I will defer to your awesomeness in this matter. :) I’ve never even come close to working a pileup on first call, so I will defer to your awesomeness in this matter. :)

]]> By: w8nf http://www.nt7s.com/blog/2009/10/dx-success/comment-page-1/#comment-108 w8nf Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:03:08 +0000 http://www.nt7s.com/blog/?p=443#comment-108 When you've developed some real technique, DXing is a fun way to "accomplish something" in a few minutes. With the elevated vertical and some power, my objective when I work a DX station is to transmit my callsign once, and only once...actually minimizing QRM. Obviously, the QRP challenge would be simply to work the station. Being a die-hard CW fan, I was a bit chastened by having worked K4M first on SSB. But my shack has been a shambles for a while and I'm only now resurrecting it...so the station was down for the first part of this DXpedition. A fellow club member reminded me of them and I thought "oops, I'd better get them while they're still on the atoll!" So, it was on 40 meters, split freq, that I first got them. Then the next morning, they were pounding in on 80 meters and I studied their operating technique carefully and voila! Got them on my first call. A nice satisfying feeling that takes less time than, for instance, what I've poured into developing a certain product.... When you’ve developed some real technique, DXing is a fun way to “accomplish something” in a few minutes. With the elevated vertical and some power, my objective when I work a DX station is to transmit my callsign once, and only once…actually minimizing QRM. Obviously, the QRP challenge would be simply to work the station.

Being a die-hard CW fan, I was a bit chastened by having worked K4M first on SSB. But my shack has been a shambles for a while and I’m only now resurrecting it…so the station was down for the first part of this DXpedition. A fellow club member reminded me of them and I thought “oops, I’d better get them while they’re still on the atoll!” So, it was on 40 meters, split freq, that I first got them. Then the next morning, they were pounding in on 80 meters and I studied their operating technique carefully and voila! Got them on my first call.

A nice satisfying feeling that takes less time than, for instance, what I’ve poured into developing a certain product….

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