"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message ...

These days I see more and more of the "rare" DX hiding down in the CW bands,
especially in the Extra portion.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Did you work them or just see them on the cluster?

"William" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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These days I see more and more of the "rare" DX hiding down in the CW
bands,
especially in the Extra portion.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Did you work them or just see them on the cluster?

Worked some, missed others.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

"William" wrote in message
m...
"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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These days I see more and more of the "rare" DX hiding down in the CW
bands,
especially in the Extra portion.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Did you work them or just see them on the cluster?

Cluster ....CLUSTER !!!!!!...... That's cheating ..... Like fishing with
those newfangled finders ....one step below using a handgrenade ......

73 Tom KI3R

"garigue" wrote

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| Cluster ....CLUSTER !!!!!!...... That's cheating ..... Like fishing
with
| those newfangled finders ....one step below using a handgrenade ......
|


From the French:

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

73, de Hans, K0HB

"Dee D. Flint" wrote

| When it comes to DX, I use all the tools at my disposal. This means I
do
| not limit my efforts to the clusters.

To each his/her own, and the clusters seem to survive after all other
uses of packet except APRS are withering, but I consider the cluster not
a tool but a crutch.

YMMV.

73, de Hans, K0HB

"KØHB" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote

| When it comes to DX, I use all the tools at my disposal. This means I
do
| not limit my efforts to the clusters.

To each his/her own, and the clusters seem to survive after all other
uses of packet except APRS are withering, but I consider the cluster not
a tool but a crutch.

YMMV.

73, de Hans, K0HB






Clusters are a pain in the rump. Dee has it right...tune and pounce...hi.

Basically the situation is .... if you catch the DX on the first or maybe
3rd call...you have a chance to work them.. Otherwise the clusters are
active and you have a million callers. Some of them can actually hear the
guy.

Dan/W4NTI

There is a technical reason for DENYING such an automatic upgrade:

The general class test has "many" questions involving HF operation.
The technician class test has few to no questions involving HF operation.

The reason is simple: They should not get a privilege that their test did not
ask (or potentially ask) about.

[For those of the "dumbed down" school: They should not get a privilege related
to a topic for which the question pool lacks a "token question."] :-)