Something tells me a bigger DX-Ped will be organized within a year, where everyone will work them with ease.
Hope you're right.
Nope, not gonna happen!:)
Of course it's going to happen. It's the middle of summer in the solar minimum, so let's be realistic. Come this winter, it'll be like shooting fish in a barrel. It's only KH8 and for us in the states you should be able to work them all bands & modes.
And, going to play DX on a tropical island that is easy to get to, of course there will be many more DXpeds.
it was very out of control -- all due to the KH8SI operator not maintaining control.
Yes, some of the ops don't have much experience but you takes what you gets. Right?
Listening in a 20 kHz wide window and not asking for calls by districts is lunacy.
I agree.
Every single time KH8SI actually answered somebody by giving the complete callsign, a thousand stations just went ahead and called, anyway. Absolutely senseless.
Not really the KH8 ops fault.
If I was the "SI" operator, I'd have made a list of lids who did that, and announced the list over the air, saying, "The following operators will not be worked or acknowledged and will not be in our log: W1ABC, K2XYZ...etc."
I'd love to hear the lids respond to you if you did that. Persistence only works, plus moving to a different band.
I did snag them last night on 17M, their signal came up big time just after dark and then got them early this morning on 40M.
Don't despair everyone, they'll be back.
Phil KB9CRY