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Juni, 2013

• 12 Juni

  Best Practices for DXpedition Operating

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=44 Best Practices for DXpedition Operating The WeeklyDX™ Helpful Hints No. 35 from the DX University™* This week, it’s more than a hint. I am addressing DXpeditioners directly. Heads up, guys! Several DXpeditions in recent months have caused serious problems, and to be honest, some of the operating has been …
• 12 Juni

  Those Nasty Pileups – Are They Really That Bad?

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=43 Those Nasty Pileups – Are They Really That Bad? The WeeklyDX™ Helpful Hints No. 34 from the DX University™* After nearly a month of traveling and still not managing to visit our son in B.C., we’re back to join the fight in the PT0S pileups. In the past, I …
• 12 Juni

  What Happened to Ten Meters?

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=42 What Happened to Ten Meters? The WeeklyDX™ Helpful Hints No. 33 from the DX University™* By the time we are well into DXing and DXCC, most of us know about sunspots and sunspot cycles. It appears that we are currently approaching the peak of sunspot cycle 24. For those …
• 12 Juni

  Expectations: What do YOU expect from a DXpedition?

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=41 Expectations: What do YOU expect from a DXpedition? The WeeklyDX™ Helpful Hints No. 32 from the DX University™* One of the things that always comes up before, during and after a DXpedition is how to deal with the expectations of DXers. It’s probably safe to say that most DXpeditioners …
• 12 Juni

  A Postcard from Montana

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=40 A Postcard from Montana The WeeklyDX™ Helpful Hints No. 30 from the DX University™* I had worked the current Conway Reef DXpedition on the needed band-modes in the couple of days prior to leaving for a visit with the grand kids on Friday last week. There wasn’t any pressure …
• 12 Juni

  The Nature of Future DXpeditions

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=39 The WeeklyDX™ Helpful Hints No. 29 from the DX University™* The Nature of Future DXpeditions The following question was asked on one of the DX Club chat reflectors last week: “Will DXpeditions Change in the Next 10-20 Years?” Without a doubt, DXpeditioning will change in the next 10 – …
• 12 Juni

  Upcoming DX — Swains Island

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=28 Upcoming DX – Swains Island by Wayne Mills, N7NG Coming early in September will be another Swains Island DXpedition. Although there have been a number of expeditions recently, and more are in the works, this one will be especially interesting to me because it offers clear-cut opportunities for success …
• 12 Juni

  Why?

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=27 Why? by Wayne Mills, N7NG While observing some of the excellent operating from D64K and 9M4SLL this past week, one might wonder why there has been relatively little acrimony present on the DXpedition frequencies. While there have been some complaints, particularly from the more deserving inEurope, the overall response …
• 12 Juni

  How to Gain an Advantage in a Pileup

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=26 How to Gain an Advantage in the Pileups (Or, how to minimize your kWh!) by Wayne Mills, N7NG I recently purchased a “Kill A Watt” Model P-4400 by P3 International. This device measures AC power consumption – KWH. It’s good up to 15 amps, and I intended to use …
• 12 Juni

  Reduce Confusion by Improving Your Timing — And Listening!

  http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=25 Reduce confusion by improving your timing – and listening! by Wayne Mills, N7NG Some time ago, I wrote about the confusion that I had been observing when one operator misread the signals from the station he was working and began transmitting before the other operator was finished. In a …