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Did you work the recent 3Y0X DXpedition to Peter Island?

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3Y0X

Yes, I worked them on 7 Bands. It would have been 8 but the guys on 80M's that think they own a specific frequency made it impossible with the intentional QRM.
Posted by K4KAL on 2006-05-22

Peter 1

W0FEN....

Why did you comment at all.....I just don't understand people who hide in their tiny little houses at their computers and poke negative comments at everything and everybody?

So you don't work DX...So What? Who do you think cares anyway....

A group of very dedicated and skilled ops who did a fantastic job....lots of time and effort, not to mention money to pull this off...Hats off to all you guys and the SEDXC for helping with all the packing and preparation beforehand...

Oh and by the way...yes, I worked them on the first call...easy when you have the equipment and the skill to do so...

Jack
Posted by K4MZW on 2006-03-10

W4MZW

Sounds like a snob to me. So what you work DX. Who cares?? Do you think I give a tinkers damn if you can make one contact over someone else? Most of use don't have a million dollars or the property to waste on big towers, big antennas and over powered linears(that's right) just for contesting. The only skill it takes is a big mouth. Thank goodness I'm very skilled at rag chewing. Now theres's a true skill. Being able to talk to someone for more than a minute. 100 watts and loving it.
Posted by N0FQN on 2006-03-10

Stupid survery answers!

Did you work the recent 3Y0X DXpedition to Peter Island?
Posted: Feb 21, 2006 (1247 votes, 73 comments) by VK5LA

Yes! easy!
Eventually...
You must be kidding, the pileups were ridiculous!
Close, but no banana...
Next time...
Peter where?

Let's see the question is good. But the answer choices, some are terrible.
A simple, "I don't work DX." night be appropriate.
Posted by W0FEN on 2006-03-09

3Y0X

Great ops down there! Not too many times to try to work Peter One in a lifetime, come to think of it. Got them on 30 and 17. Heard my call on 15 SSB but "not in log." Possibly worked a Peter I "wannabe" on their announced freq? Really wanted a QSO on 40 for 40 DXCC but gave up -- couldn't tolerate what I call the "interference terrorists" who have so little self image and self worth that they have to ruin a great DXing experience for others. Kudos to the operators who must have the patience of Job!!! 73, Jim W6NRJ
Posted by W6NRJ on 2006-03-07

Reply to Why??

I'll try to give an honest answer to an honest question. I assume you are referring to the recent DXpedition to 3Y when you say the "South Pole," since this is a recent thread. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know of anyone going to the South Pole just to work DX.

Peter I Island, unlike the South Pole and some other areas in Antarctica, does not have a permanent station. It is totally uninhabited and until recently, no one has operated from there in 12 years. There's nothing there but snow and ice, and those guys had to set up everything.

So for anyone to work this DXCC country, a DXpedition is the only way. And to work their friends back home? Their total QSO count was over 87K. That's a lotta friends! So I'm not asking why they went, I'm just glad they did, and honored to be one of their many friends. And I applaud those guys for a job well done.

I don't see any comparison in working 3Y and other major DXpeditons to DX nets. No one is spoon feeding the contacts. You're on your own and trying to be heard over the masses. And you're trying to hear through the QRM. Nope, just no comparison.
Posted by K4HB on 2006-03-03

Third Call

20 Meter phone, band was going out a little after local sundown. Got him on third call with my 100 Watts and 130 foot inverted L.

Posted by K3AN on 2006-03-03

Reply to Reply to Why

Hal... Thanks for the reply. When I said South Pole I was generalizing. I appreciate your candid and cordial remarks, but I still don't get it. I guess it's just a difference of DX opinion. Hope you have a great weekend... Ron/W5RCP formerly Ka5HZV
Posted by KA5HZV on 2006-03-03

KA5HZV is thoroughly confused. DX lists, dx nets and even the packet cluster make most/all of the challenge disappear in dx'ing. Working a dx'pedition that was organized for that very purpose does not in any manner, resemble "fishing in a barrel".
Posted by WA4DOU on 2006-03-03

3Y0X

When I heard the pileups at the beginning of the DXpedition, I thought I would have no chance to work them. I spent the first week having fun just listening to the mayhem. Finally on about the 9th day I was able to hear them well enough on 17m CW. I called for about 45 minutes and was about to give up since I had plans to go to a basketball game, but I decided to stay with it for another 5 minutes. I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard my call come back to me.

So even a "small gun" station like mine @ 100 watts and a wire antenna can work the pileups. It just took patience and perseverence, and I'm sure a little luck!

73
Posted by KB9BIT on 2006-03-03

3Y0X Yea!

I was lucky enough to get them on 4 bands and 2 modes. This was the most fun I've had on HF in a long time. The QRM'ers and others just make it better for me when I finally get the contact. I actually look for the pile-ups now to see if can bust through. I want more DXpeditions.
Posted by KG5I on 2006-03-03

agree with K4EB

Why do people keep calling when a dx station asks for a specific callsign?
Been going on for years....I don't understand.

73 to all the good ops out there.

K4EB
This is also with KW++ stations. Smaller stations do not seem to have a chance... To Bad. 72 & 73 de PE1NPG
Posted by PE1NPG on 2006-03-02

Why??

This is an honest question. Why would someone go all the way to the south pole to work stations in the US??? Isn't this like fishing in a barrel? I could understand if someone is actually down there for a reason and brings a radio with him/her, but to go through all that just to work their friends back home????? It reminds me of those DX nets where one guy makes sure you get your dx station....
Just a question......
Posted by KA5HZV on 2006-03-02

DX

Bit annoying to try and work a dx station and hear some one with a great deal of power reach the station and hear the following: "Worked you yestereday (or some other time) and just wanted to say Hi."
If you have worked the station before, give someone else a chance. Once should be enough!
Posted by VE6AGP on 2006-03-01

one question

Why do people keep calling when a dx station asks for a specific callsign?
Been going on for years....I don't understand.

73 to all the good ops out there.

K4EB
Posted by K4EB on 2006-03-01

Peter I

I don't have much of a station but I am in the log on three bands, CW. Piece of cake on 30M and 17M, and three hours to get in on 20M. I have to agree that the ops at 3Y0X were the "A" Team - I have been DX, but not in a situation like theirs, and getting callsigns out of the pile must have been a phenomenal task. They did a FB job and they have my permanent respect.
Dave K7NG
Posted by K7NG on 2006-02-27

Peter I

I don't have much of a station but I am in the log on three bands, CW. Piece of cake on 30M and 17M, and three hours to get in on 20M. I have to agree that the ops at 3Y0X were the "A" Team - I have been DX, but not in a situation like theirs, and getting callsigns out of the pile must have been a phenomenal task. They did a FB job and they have my permanent respect.
Dave K7NG
Posted by K7NG on 2006-02-27

3Y0X

This was a "world class" effort in every sense. The skill of the operators was the best I've heard in more than 52 years of ham radio - they did a magnificent job under really tough circumstances.

Worked them on 40/30/20 c.w. and spent hours in the process - 100 watts & Carolina windom - good combination, but no match for multi-KW & big yagis !

Future DXpeditions would do well to benchmark this one - congratulations & 73.

Bob W4GCB
Posted by W4GCB on 2006-02-27

3Y0X

This was a "world class" effort in every sense. The skill of the operators was the best I've heard in more than 52 years of ham radio - they did a magnificent job under really tough circumstances.

Worked them on 40/30/20 c.w. and spent hours in the process - 100 watts & Carolina windom - good combination, but no match for multi-KW & big yagis !

Future DXpeditions would do well to benchmark this one - congratulations & 73.

Bob W4GCB
Posted by W4GCB on 2006-02-27

3Y0X

I worked this great crew CW on 160,80,40,30,20,17,15,and 12 meter bands. I missed them on ten meters because I had to go to work. Toughest was 40 meters with intentional QRM from jammers. I'm not sure what to make of the jammers, maybe they need some kind of help in the form of psychological intervention I guess?
Posted by W7DO on 2006-02-27

3y0x

Did,ny spend much time looking-KL7 condxbeen terrible-hrd on 75 w/huge pile-called bareft a few times-nothing-flipped on the AL811H-presto-3rd call!!-icom725 and roof mt. 5BTV-they have away cool website to confirm if in log!! 73 mike-KL7HFA
Posted by KL7HFA on 2006-02-27

3Y0X

Didn't work the expedition but did follow it very closely on the Website. The site was informative, well done and the pictures were great. Almost made you feel like you were there with the crew. From what I heard on the air, the 3Y0X crew were great ops and had very good ears. Also sent a thank you note to the Webmaster for a job well done.
Ken, N6YE
Posted by N6YE on 2006-02-26

3Y0X

This DXpedition was the most interesting and unique of any I can remember in 25+ years of DXing-The Pictures and Website were OUTSTANDING ! Worked 7 bands & on 160M for a New Country. -Randy W7TJ
Posted by W7TJ on 2006-02-25

3Y0X

I had LESS TROUBLE making contact with Peter One Island than I have getting a contact with Wisconsin and Hawaii to finish out my WAS!!!! Go figure. The guys at Peter Island did a fabulous job. Kudo's for sure. Now, if the confirmation QSL will ever get here. However with 87,000+ calls to confirm and send out, I suspect the QSL manager will have his plate very, very full!
Posted by KC0NYK on 2006-02-25

Analogy

<< In the middle of all this are the DX police racing around
at 75 mph on jet skis between the boats, tipping some
people over, getting caught in the lines and scaring the fish
(DX) away.>>

I love the analogy!
Posted by W3LK on 2006-02-25

3YØX

These guys made my day by what they did. It took me 7 hours on the first day on 40 cw to finally get my contact. After that, they can quite abit easier. I've always tried to think of an analogy to what it is like on my side of the signal to get through the QRM. I picture a lake with one fish in it. In this lake are 30,000 fisherman in boats intent on catching that one fish. If they do, they must release it for the rest to have their chance. Some fisherman are casting, some are still fishing, some are trolling and some are using dynamite. Some have the top-of-the-line fishing gear from underwater cameras, depth finders to $25,000 Bass boats. Others are in canoes, rowboats, dinghys, etc. In the middle of all this are the DX police racing around at 75 mph on jet skis between the boats, tipping some people over, getting caught in the lines and scaring the fish (DX) away. Anyway, you get the idea. Thanks 3YØX for a very exciting fishing trip! I wouldn't trade it for anything. Zed KØNNN
Posted by K0NNN on 2006-02-24

Glad I already have them confirmed

I have Peter I confirmed on SSB, CW, and RTTY from about 10 years ago, so I didn't need to wade into mulitple pileups.
Posted by WB4M on 2006-02-24

Fishing for DX

Hey K0NNN,
That was pretty good!
73,
Chuck NI0C
Posted by NI0C on 2006-02-24

Worked from mobile

I worked Peter I four times from the mobile on 20 and 17. Ninety watts and a nine foot antenna with homebrew center coil. It was fairly easy.

Bill K1XT
St. Louis, MO
Posted by K1XT on 2006-02-24

3YØX

Hey Chuck, Tnx for the kudos. Don't post many comments. When chasin' DX, I'm the guy in the dinghy...but when it comes to dot/dash, I'm ridin' in the bass boat. Hope to catch you on the air. Zed KØNNN/ stb KØTTT
Posted by K0NNN on 2006-02-24

3Y0X Worked them and Logged them!!!

I had a fairly easy time working them except on 40 it took me 2 hours of trying here at the home station. I got them 40 mobile on the 2nd call go figure. 15, 17, 20 & 40 Home and 20 & 40 mobile....
These guys did a great job Thanks for your effort...
Roland AH6RR
Posted by AH6RR on 2006-02-24

Great - but not alwasys easy

Hats off to this fine team of ops! Worked all bands but 12 and 10m. Biggest thrill was on 160 with a new loop I recently put up. Actually my first DX on 160...not a bad way to start! hihi.

Tnx and 73
Greg
AB7R

Posted by AB7R on 2006-02-23

It's been done...

DXCC has been accomplished. And by many. So goes Worked All States.

I am embarking on a real challenge:

W.A.B.B.H. (Worked All Beer Bellied Hams)

Yes, the postage alone will kill me. But I must strive for an award that nobody has accomplished before! I'm driven! (burrrrrp.....)

(P.S. Distilled spirits/wine connoisseurs do not qualify....)

73, Bill - WA8MEA
http://HamRadioFun.com
wa8mea@hotmail.com
Posted by WA8MEA on 2006-02-23

Easy!

I was surprised at how small the pile ups were on 20 meters. I expected huge pileups like we had for Ducie. With an inverted vee at 27 feet and 1,499 watts, I worked them on the third call.

Great ops!

W9WHE


Posted by W9WHE-II on 2006-02-23

Easy!

I was surprised at how small the pile ups were on 20 meters. I expected huge pileups like we had for Ducie. With an inverted vee at 27 feet and 1,499 watts, I worked them on the third call.

Great ops!

W9WHE


Posted by W9WHE-II on 2006-02-23

3Y0X

I listened a few times throughout their effort, never hearing them. A five-month-old future ham in the home keeps me out of the shack almost, but not quite, 24/7. Sometimes I sneak out to bust out a Q or two, but don't have time to burn trying to break a pileup with QRP or learn head copy in CW. Maybe when the boy grows up a little bit he and I will get son-dad time on the radio together. 73, Ray KA8SYX
Posted by KA8SYX on 2006-02-23

DX Calling--SPLIT!

When will folks calling DX LISTEN on their transmit frequency before calling?DX'ing isn't an emergency. Why do DX operations feel its OK to take over 25+kc. for their own listening pleasure? Why do persons calling DX adjust their equipment into intentional distortion? Lotsa strange things happen, but not much we can proudly let a visitor hear. Can't imagine spending $11,499.95 plus peripherals. Shame!
Posted by K9CSM on 2006-02-23

3Y0X

K9CSM,

I thought about that very subject recently and concluded that when thousands of dx'ers + the dx want to use 10,15 even 20 khz. of spectrum, its the most spectrum efficient use that ever occurs. If you're ticked off because thousands of others are using it, perhaps you ought to reconsider.
Posted by WA4DOU on 2006-02-23

Call me old-fashioned, but I already had 3Y0 confirmed on 20cw. Thus, no need to join the pileups. Try it, you'll like it!
Posted by N7YW on 2006-02-22

3Y0X

Worked 'em on 20 CW with a Buddipole at 35 feet
and 100 watts. It took about 20 min. of calling. But
due to lids on the dx freq. I was not sure if the
QSO was completed.

So to make sure I worked them twice the same
night. Sure enough, only one QSO was in their
log. The Dupes policy was a good one,
especially given that 3Y0X was tough to hear.

The ops at Peter I were great. But...there were
lots of poor operators calling on freq. announcing
their liditude (lidness? lidosity?) to the world, not
to mention the trogs tuning up on frequency.
T'was a sad pageant of the clueless, deaf and
brain dead.


Posted by NB2N on 2006-02-22

Dupe Contacts

Well fellows, usually I don't work a DX'pedition more than once, but after working them once on twenty phone, and not seeing the QSO on the web page, and reading their dupe policy, I worked 'em again!

Both Phone QSO's were then on the web page the next day as was my one and only CW QSO.

Unlike some, I did not try to work them on all bands/modes simply because I could not hear them on all bands/modes!

Besides, I got them on 20, so that's a start!

73 Gary WG7X
Posted by WG7X on 2006-02-22

Yep!

Got 'em on phone & CW. The pile-ups were horrendous! Timing & skill were everything!

But then again, that was in 1987 during the 1st Peter 1 expedition (3Y2GV) :)
Posted by W1NK on 2006-02-22

3Y0X

I am amazed with the complexity of this DXpedition considering how many stations they were able to have up and running at one time. The logistics of getting all that equipment and themselves to and from the island had to have been incredible. Hats off to all involved. I was able to work them on 40,30,20,17 with dipoles and a vertical antenna. I am grateful for having had the opportunity in spite of the poor behavior by some.
Posted by KK9H on 2006-02-22

Got them on 30m!

I worked them on 20 SSB, 30 CW, 17 CW and 20 CW, using 100 watts and low simple antennas-dipole for 30 and 17, mini quad for 20 meters. They were louder on 30 meters than any other band. Also heard them nicely on 40 but the pileups were horrendous there, and my 100 watts and dipole didn't stand a chance. Besides, I have my 40 meter DXCC already.

30 meters is a great band that is often overlooked as one of our best DX bands!
Posted by NE0P on 2006-02-22

3Y0X

After very frustrating efforts trying to work them on the (necessarily) very wide
splits they were using, I was lucky enough
one morning to hear them apparently just
starting on 20 phone -- instead of a 10 or even 15 KHz swath of frequencies they named just a single one. I quickly dialed that and
got 'em first call! I was quite willing to let the other freqs go. -- Stan WA6ST
Posted by WA6ST on 2006-02-22

3Y0X

Boy, these ops had some great ears. Could just barely make copy on 30 meter cw. They heard me OK though. I was only running 100 watts to a Carolina windom antenna up 35 feet. Hats off to these guys, super job under difficult conditions just to make a bunch of other hams happy. Congrats guys!
Posted by K1KID on 2006-02-22

3y0x

I have followed this DXpedition closely. I worked them on 20 and 30 meters cw and phone. I worked the ship last night on 20 cw, xr9a/mm. This was a great team of very good operators. From all I have heard, they bent over backwards to work as many stations as possible. A fellow local hame talked to one operator for several minutes early one morning. The operator said if you don't find your call in the log work us again. So they did all they could. I think it was great.

NZ5S
Posted by N5PFZ on 2006-02-22

Excellent Ops

I worked them on a bunch of bands, without much trouble, as they had very good RF ears and my antennas are pretty good. After working them I hung around and listened. Without exception, once they heard a call or fragment, they stuck with the station...sometimes pulling out one letter on each "over", but they they hung in there despite the hoards of other callers on frequency. It was great to listen to ops of this caliber handling the pileups and making sure the little guys got through as much as possible. And their patience ( at least on the air) with the lids and jammers was exemplary. The 3Y0X crew is a class act.
Posted by W1ITT on 2006-02-22

3Y0X

I second the kudos to those ops; fantastic performance.

The thing that gets me, and gets me every time, is the nimrods who tune up on the DX frequency. There is just no excuse for that kind of incompetence. This is especially true for CW ops, who by and large are older, more experienced hams (yes, there are exceptions); they should know better. But there they are, at least one every 10 minutes, loading up those old tube finals on the DX calling freq. I collected a few callsigns of these jokers (yes, some of them actually sign their calls after peaking those 811s for 5 minutes at a time) and according to the databases, these guys have been in the game for decades. So what's the neural disconnect? Eh?


Posted by W2CDO on 2006-02-22

I had no problem hearing the Stateside and European stations trying to bust through. Only once did I actually hear 3Y0X, on 40m, but never got through. 100W and the dipole was "facing" the wrong way (Peter Is. was just about straight off the end of the dipole. Ah well, maybe I'll live long enough for someone to mount another DXpedition there. :-)
Posted by WA4UF on 2006-02-21

3y0x

I managed to work them on four bands and in two different modes. I didn't need them because I had worked 3YOEE several years before. It was fun to try again and practice dxing skills. They were excellent operators that did a super job during poor band conditions.
Posted by KS9Y on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I waited to work them in RTTY and digimodes. I copied signals on three different bands and managed to get through pileups on one. Pileup on 20 meters stretched over 10-12 kHz. RTTY operators seemed unsure and hesitant. Long delays between calls and responses. Statistics show that only about 5% of total operations were on RTTY. Given the number of RTTY, PSK operators, this is unfortunate.

Glad I got my one contact. I even bought a commemorative hat.
Posted by K5PAX on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

Couldn't get through, with the lids calling on the listening freq, and the BIG GUNS getting 15 or 25 contacts. Should be like field day, after 1(ONE) contact it is a Dup.
Posted by KX5F on 2006-02-21

Too much noise here

I couldn't hear them very often...I have some pulse-type noise in the neighborhood which I haven't been able to track down yet and the noise blanker only partially removes(when I find it...watch out!) When I COULD hear them, they were not listening in the general portions...Oh well, I tried. Pfffft.
Posted by KB9WQJ on 2006-02-21

Yep

It was a lot easier than I envisioned, considering where we are in the sunspot cycle. Only band where I had to call repeatedly to make a contact was 30m CW. On every other band-mode, made the contact in one to four calls, and completed 8 band-mode contacts without any "dupes."

I agree the dupes are silly, especially when they have an on-line log that's sorta up to date.

Very impressed I heard them working Alaska, eastern EU, Russia, JA etc. about as easily as they worked anywhere else -- and those places are really far from Peter I. Good job, guys.

WB2WIK/6
Posted by WB2WIK on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I had them on 12M but a station started calling them on their output frequency just when they asked me to verify my call sign. Bottom line; I never got on their log. Therefore, I agree with the other comment about them encouraging "dupe contacts". They shouldn't have done it. Us guys in the middle US with wire antennas and 100 watts were in a "deep doo" situation.
Posted by N4VNV on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I couldn't get em. I heard them the best on 40 and 17 meters. I tried but noticed that while they were transmitting there was ALWAYS someone within 2 khz with an extreemly wide signal. I swear they were trying to pick fights with us and always refused to move off. So, I gave up. What's with these guys? To me this is a hobby and doesn't warrant my blood presure getting out of wack.

I guess there are a lot of bitter people in the world.
Marty
KG6QKJ
Posted by KG6QKJ on 2006-02-21

3Y0X split ops


I wish people would understand what split ops means. There is no reason for guys calling on the dx xmit freq. Dont U understand what up 3 means? If U think the dx station is going to work U on the same freq just listen for a minute. Its easy to see that its a split ops. Wake up and stop the poor operating!!! Also, it makes no sense to keep calling the dx station constantly while he is listening to the station he just called for a signal report. Whats the matter with U guys?


K8XF


Posted by K8XF on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I got lucky. Worked them on 7 bands.

WZ4I - Mark
Hickory, NC
Posted by WW4DX on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I got lucky. Worked them on 7 bands.

WZ4I - Mark
Hickory, NC
Posted by WW4DX on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I got lucky. Worked them on 7 bands.

WZ4I - Mark
Hickory, NC
Posted by WW4DX on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I did work the gang on 17 and 30 meters. I was disgusted with the deliberate QRMing that went on on all bands. What thrill does one get from that? On the whole it was a great DXpedition and the operators should be congratulated for making nearly 90,000 QSOs under very difficult conditions. Bob, N2OO, QSL manager for 3Y0X said the QSOs will be posted on LOTW early in 2007.
Posted by K2CBM on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I managed to work them on 15 meters and 20 meters during mid-day on the West Coast. Could not hear them very well on 17/12 meters. I thought this was a particularly well run Dx Pedition and I am grateful to the team for putting peter one on the air again.
Posted by N6PSE on 2006-02-21

Worked 'em Once

I had a hard time hearing them, but then again I don't get
up at three and four in the morning to chase DX. :)

Worked them on 15m. It took about ten minutes of
listening and then about 5 minutes of calling.

I have read all the complaints about rude pileups but I
attribute that as much to frustration at poor propagation
as to anything else.

73,

Lon - W3LK
Baltimore, Maryland
Posted by W3LK on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I was luck enough to work them on 4 bands, all CW; however that first contact was the most difficult. The early pileups were wide and deep, with simultaneous propagation to many areas of the world. On 30 and 17 meters, I was running 100 watts, but used the amplifier to get them on 40 and 80.
Posted by NI0C on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

I worked them on 80 - 15 meters, on CW and SSB. It was much easier than I expected - 40 LSB sure was easier than 40M CW.

The operators on all bands and modes where I worked them were absolutely top notch, and this dx-pedition was right up there with my all time favorites.

FANTASTIC job guys - way to go - and hang in there for years to make this happen!

DX-ped supporter - Rich, KY6R
Posted by KY6R on 2006-02-21

lid jammers

couldnt make a qso, altho i sure tried. vertical and 100 w isnt enough at times.
Posted by AL7QH on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

An interesting and timely subject. I was wondering how long it would take before someone who didn't get a contact blamed someone who he feels got more than his fair share. No doubt a referee should have doled them out, one to a customer!

I was quite ashamed of the deliberate interference I heard and the thousands who kept calling, calling, without a clue as to where, when and for how long they should have been doing so. There were many who could not hear the station or could not seem to take their cue from 3Y0X as to exactly when to respond. It could be properly asked, if you cannot hear the dx, why are you calling the dx? And on cw, if you aren't proficient with cw and can't recognize your own call, why are you in the pileup? Are you using a code reader? If so, thats no way to pursue dx if you're serious.
More than all other reasons why the majority that did not get a contact, did not, was a lack of understanding as to how to approach the situation. 3Y0X clearly demonstrated that they could have made many thousands more qso's if the pileup had been better disciplined.
Posted by WA4DOU on 2006-02-21

I only actually heard them well enough to work them once, on 17M RTTY. RTTY pileups are hell -- worse than most other kinds I think. Never did bust through.
Posted by K0RFD on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

By the way, I went to bed early, about 8:00 EST one night in order to get up at midnight and be up for up to 3 hours so I could pursue them on 40 cw. It took me a couple hours to make the contact. Was it worth it? You betcha. If I need dx I'll often make concessions of that nature for it.
Posted by WA4DOU on 2006-02-21

Dupes

It is accepted DX practice to pursue QSO's with rare DX on every band/mode combo; however more than two QSO's on the SAME band/mode is indicative of either poor operating or just plain piggishness, IMHO.

I know at least two hams who made multiple QSO's with 3Y0X using two different callsigns each-- their main call, plus a "club" call (guess how many members are in these "clubs").

Such selfishness does displace the potential for QSO's by others waiting for their first one.


Posted by NI0C on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

Got ‘em where I wanted ‘em: on 40 CW, the only antenna that’s competitive here. (100 watts)I don’t mind the jammers or the LID’s. They make it more fun. Love those nutsy pileups!

K1ZF

Posted by K1ZF on 2006-02-21

3y0x

I have had great fun following this DXpedition! I finally worked them on 20 SSB and I worked them as xr9a/mm on CW tonight from the Dap Mares ship. I have several local hams who I chase DX with. Most of us had FB OSO's with the team. One of my local friends had a chance to talk to one of the operators for a few minutes one early morning. The 3y0x operator told him that dupes were just fine with them. Smae band/mode or not. They really wanted to log everyone they worked. My opinion is these hams made every effort to work everybody. I have never been the "DX" station but I will have a chance this summer as OA/NZ5S from Peru. Not a real hotspot for DX but this will be my first expedition. I hope I can work everyone as well as this team did.

73's Around,

NZ5S




Posted by N5PFZ on 2006-02-21

3y0x

I have had great fun following this DXpedition! I finally worked them on 20 SSB and I worked them as xr9a/mm on CW tonight from the Dap Mares ship. I have several local hams who I chase DX with. Most of us had FB OSO's with the team. One of my local friends had a chance to talk to one of the operators for a few minutes one early morning. The 3y0x operator told him that dupes were just fine with them. Smae band/mode or not. They really wanted to log everyone they worked. My opinion is these hams made every effort to work everybody. I have never been the "DX" station but I will have a chance this summer as OA/NZ5S from Peru. Not a real hotspot for DX but this will be my first expedition. I hope I can work everyone as well as this team did.

73's Around,

NZ5S




Posted by N5PFZ on 2006-02-21

Great Job

The team did a great job. The rest of the world was awful. The pileups ignored the operator's instructions, screamed into empty space, called on top of the Dx, called out of turn and committed about every other folly known to man. They could have worked a lot more stations with more cooperation from peanut gallery. I think they should have been tougher by imposing some order.
Posted by K4IA on 2006-02-21

3Y0X

A bunch of PRO'S in my opinion. First time for 3y0 on 20 and 40m. The 40m yagi and 20m quad made it happen but calling amongst the JA pile-up was an immense thrill! A superb operation in a very difficult and harsh enviroment.

Thanks Guys DE Chris VK1GG
Posted by chris carroll on 2006-02-21

Tried them late in the week. Out of maybe 3 hours listening on 80, 20 and 17, they were only readable for about 15 minutes on 80. Called them maybe 20 times but no dice. Just not in a good direction from the home QTH.

The lids were amazing.
Posted by AI4DG on 2006-02-21