I've become a Whale Nut!

[KA9MOT]

Fair enough on the first part, I simply have no interest in repeaters and own no 2m gear at all. I may give sats a try in the future, but i love DXing. Thats the great thing about this hobby, something for everyone.

On the second part....couldnt agree more. Calling over and over without listening just tells a few hundred other ops at the same time that you suck at this pileup biz and should stick to internet porn. I hear it all the time, DX says "The Italy Kilo Six Alpha station again, Only the Italy Kilo Six, please"....10 stations without an Italy, a Kilo or a Six keep calling, even though he is talking. I mean, clearly talking, THEN they start calling over him...its like they are chasing an entirely different station! Unreal.


But thats another thread....

When I was a new ham I asked why my rig came with FM. The answer was so I could use repeaters on 10 and 6M.......Why? It makes no sense to me. It's an HF rig! LOL! I did try 10M repeaters once. I keyed up and Identified on 2 repeaters, one in NY and 1 in TX at the same time. That started a shit storm. I was talking to a guy in TX and the guy in NY wanted to know what was going on because he couldn't hear the ham in TX. No room for repeaters on HF. I guess there is something for everybody.
I own a Handheld that will do 2M and 70cm, I rarely use it. I would like to get a 2M for APRS use and a dual band mobile for my truck so I have something to do while travelling around going to doctors appointments. I would love to get another HF rig and run it in my truck, but that is not in the budget at this time.

[K7SGJ]

Funny thing about DX.......well, maybe not funny but I don't chase it. It is not a priority of mine. If I hear a DX station calling CQ, there is no pile-up, the station speaks English well enough for me to understand him, and I think I can work in a rag chew with him, I'll call him. Otherwise, it is just another, "I worked to hard to get a 59 contact" and I am not interested. Every once in a while I'll hear something intriguing to me and I'll jump into the pile-up, like the time I was mobile and worked Sierra Leon, because he was working split and I had not worked split before.

What irritates the shit out of me is when I hear a DX Station, and there is a pile-up and you get that pushy guy, who calls over and over again, even when the DX is talking, and when he finally gets heard says, "Hello Hermie, I've worked you 7 times before!" Then he gets his 59 report. Why bother?

Soooooooooooooooooo, you've never worked California?

[NQ6U]

Soooooooooooooooooo, you've never worked California?

Everybody has worked California.

[N7YA]

Shes a loose gal.

[WØTKX]

I don't know anything about a whale's nuts but the California Gray Whale has a penis that is fourteen feet long. Talk about hung...

Otherwise known as a big dork. We had a lotta fun with the UT a long time ago with that.

[N7YA]

When I was a new ham I asked why my rig came with FM. The answer was so I could use repeaters on 10 and 6M.......Why? It makes no sense to me. It's an HF rig! LOL! I did try 10M repeaters once. I keyed up and Identified on 2 repeaters, one in NY and 1 in TX at the same time. That started a shit storm. I was talking to a guy in TX and the guy in NY wanted to know what was going on because he couldn't hear the ham in TX. No room for repeaters on HF. I guess there is something for everybody.
I own a Handheld that will do 2M and 70cm, I rarely use it. I would like to get a 2M for APRS use and a dual band mobile for my truck so I have something to do while travelling around going to doctors appointments. I would love to get another HF rig and run it in my truck, but that is not in the budget at this time.

I would do 6m, but for the DXing, maybe next cycle. 10m is not a repeater band for me, it works just fine as a straight up DX band for HF. But in other news, i repaired my antenna and got that back in the air yesterday and within 10 minutes, i logged Bonaire and Guatemala. Its good to be back on the air. I even got a bundle at the same time from the 7th district buro, pulled a couple of new ones out of the envelope (St Barts and Market Reef)...good times!

[NA4BH]

[N7YA]

I would eat the fuck out of that....on my cheat day, of course. ;)

[KA9MOT]

Soooooooooooooooooo, you've never worked California?

Yes, I have :D Spanish I have no problem with. I can speak Spanish/Mexican (or Mexican Spanish if you prefer) fairly well, but I can not read or write it. As mush as we'd like it to be, CA is not DX, but I am looking forward to the day when I can work it and it has an IOTA number!

[N7YA]

Im right next door to them and i consider California to be DX.