Interesting that you mention 8Q in this thread.  In the 2002 WPX Phone contest I worked 8Q7OA at 0345z on 10m LP, along with a half dozen YBs, 9K, UP0, and several UA9s.  Often the limiting factor in finding 10m LP openings is having a station at the other end.  Had there not been a major contest going on, perhaps none of these stations would have been QRV on 10m at that time.

Google Hugh Cassidy, WA6AUD, West Coast DX Bulletin, etc.  VE1DX has a site too. 

Please try not to take it literally.  There's no committee.

Hmmm......is this a vote or a poll???   


Yes, on 20m.  And maybe 40m but I'd have to check my old paper logbooks.  (Was temporarily QRT during FT5ZH in 1998.)

I'm not sure I understand.  No new countries were created with the breakup.  Prefixes changed but the entity status was maintained.

I suspect some of that is because TX5K was able to put their 160 antenna very near the water.  That option really does not exist on CE0Y.  It's quite a bit further away too - from W9 about twice as far.

It's really quite simple:  DXers like to work DXpeditions!  DXpeditions like to work DXers!

It would be pretty boring for the DXpedtioners if they only people that called them were 26 people/day that had never worked Easter Island before.   

VK6 and VK8 are in zone 29 with a decent number of active hams.  You may also find stations in Antarctica in zone 29 (as well as zones 12, 13, 30, 32, 38 and 39 which all come together at the south pole.)

Something was sloppy but not the op or his  fist - this was during a phone contest.

You worked PJ4G which was a very active call in the ARRL DX Phone Contest.

Distance isn't always the limiting factor in signal strength.  It's the path between you and the DX, and where/what it passes through.  For example, VK6 is a long way from the eastern half of the US but is typically easy to work.  To cite a more current example, 3B9DX is also 10,000+ miles from W9 - they've had very nice signals.

I can only speak from a northern W9 perspective but past operations from Heard (as well as very close neighbor Kerguelen) have not been terribly difficult to work.  The pileup will likely be your biggest challenge, not the propagation.

Good luck!

Is there a particular reason you are not able to look for them early in the morning, when EU isn't a factor on 80m?

Or give a listen for this very experienced team of CW ops who will be active as T2GM in a few days.

http://t2gm.org/

The beauty of the DXCC program is that they haven't legislated every conceivable situation when it comes to actually working the DX.  They've left the fine print for determining what counts as an entity. 

If you don't think you should be able to work DX from any station other than the one you built, that's fine.  Don't.

If you think it doesn't matter what station you work the DX from as long as it complies with the rules, i.e., same entity, that's fine.  Go for it.

If you want to limit yourself to working DXCC with only calls that end in "Z", that's fine.  Good Luck!

It's your award.  You make it what you want it to be.

Enjoy the chase!  (Wherever you chase it from....)

No more confusing than trying to figure out if the W8 spotter is in the easternmost tip of West Virginia (practically a W3) or the western most tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (practically a W0!)  :-)

You worked P40L