wrote

If you have a packet spots network up
and running in your neighborhood by all means plug into it.

Kelly gives a lot of good DXing advice in his message, but the above sentences
is really BAD advice.

Packet clusters are for slugs. Real radiomen work DX without being led to it by
the nose. There's a french tongue twister which puts it like this:

"Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien."
(A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog)

73, de Hans, K0HB