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EI2GLB

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Don't give up hope yet guys
« on: April 03, 2023, 12:32:35 PM »

Just looking over the Stats for the recent activation of the EI DX club from V26

And for you Digi mode haters it makes good reading,

CW and SSB both manage to edge FT8/4 that has to be a first in a long time for a multi Op expedition,

I know V26 isn't exactly rare DX but that doesn't seem to matter these day, people are just hungry to work any DX doesn't matter how rare it is,

Great job by the guys considering how many other expeditions were on at the same time, I didn't see too many reports of pile up's walking over each other,

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KD6KVL

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2023, 12:41:01 PM »

The breakdown from EU vs NA is pretty big!  They must be MUCH more needed out east.
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Frank KG6N

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2023, 12:46:43 PM »

What about the digi ambivalent readers? We can read too.
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WB8VLC

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2023, 12:47:12 PM »


Great job by the guys considering how many other expeditions were on at the same time, I didn't see too many reports of pile up's walking over each other,
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As to not hearing about any pileups and people stepping on each other, well obviously you weren't listening to them on 29 MHz Fm last week because the pileup was nuts at times but thanks to FM's capture effect us guys with large beams and more than 100 watts got thru easily.

Fortunately for me I got them first in line when they came up on 10 FM and then I posted them on the cluster and sat back and listened to the insanity on 10 FM.
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EI2GLB

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2023, 12:52:04 PM »

10m FM is as about as important as 160m SSTV  ;D


Great job by the guys considering how many other expeditions were on at the same time, I didn't see too many reports of pile up's walking over each other,
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As to not hearing about any pileups and people stepping on each other, well obviously you weren't listening to them on 29 MHz Fm last week because the pileup was nuts at times but thanks to FM's capture effect us guys with large beams and more than 100 watts got thru easily.

Fortunately for me I got them first in line when they came up on 10 FM and then I posted them on the cluster and sat back and listened to the insanity on 10 FM.
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EI2GLB

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2023, 12:56:16 PM »

They were a group of EI's so there was always going to be a EU bias not that they called EU only (no one ever calls EU only), they knew where and when to work over this way, looking at the leaderboard on Clublog there is EI's on it that probably never worked outside EU before never mind called in a pile up,

I doubt that there is many in NA that needed V26 for any slots that are any way active on the bands,


The breakdown from EU vs NA is pretty big!  They must be MUCH more needed out east.
Frank KG6N
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WO7R

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2023, 01:55:16 PM »

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I doubt that there is many in NA that needed V26 for any slots that are any way active on the bands,

Prepare to be surprised. DX is a renewable resource.  There are new DXers coming on stream, always.

There are also DXers who, having worked in eras where DXCC Challenge wasn't "the thing", have a lot of experience yet a lot of unfilled band slots out there and only now decided to fill them.

Anyone with DXCC Challenge 1000 to 1500, even in North America, probably had quite a few slots they were looking to fill.

Not to mention the increasing numbers of younger DXers who have decided to avoid cards.  A V2 operation that promises LOTW (V26EI did) is going to get calls from those in NA that have the slots worked but refuse to spend the bucks on cards.  Some out of cheapness, some because, well, cards are a comparative hassle; LOTW is much easier to actually turn in.

In any case, that was a fine operation by any standard, mode percentages be damned.
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WB8VLC

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2023, 08:48:06 PM »

After working pretty much everything else on ssb and cw over the past 45 plus years the only thing left is the 10meter FM dxcc challenge since I dont care for digital.

All that is left for me then is FM or AM and I find there is more dx on 10 FM than on AM on all other bands and with almost 200 dxcc on 10FM already, I figure the next 100 countries should take another 45 years.
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ON6AB

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Re: Don't give up hope yet guys
« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 03:20:20 AM »

10m FM is as about as important as 160m SSTV  ;D


Great job by the guys considering how many other expeditions were on at the same time, I didn't see too many reports of pile up's walking over each other,
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As to not hearing about any pileups and people stepping on each other, well obviously you weren't listening to them on 29 MHz Fm last week because the pileup was nuts at times but thanks to FM's capture effect us guys with large beams and more than 100 watts got thru easily.

Fortunately for me I got them first in line when they came up on 10 FM and then I posted them on the cluster and sat back and listened to the insanity on 10 FM.
Or as ft8/ft4 for that matter...;-)
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