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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 – …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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DXpedition Retrospective: 1A0C

http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=24 DXpedition Retrospective: 1A0C by Wayne Mills, N7NG Paraphrasing the venerable Hugh Cassidy: If you worked [a DXpedition], it was a great one! If you didn’t, well…it wasn’t all that good. Listening to the some of the comments from the western reaches, last week’s DXpedition to Sovereign Military Order of …

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New DX Waves and Terms Coming Up: The DXPP and Outer Space

http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=23 New DX Waves and Terms Coming Up: The DXPP and Outer Space By Guest Contributor Martti J. Laine, OH2BH Thanks to NCDXF Treasurer Don Greenbaum, N1DG and his excellent financial study of several mega-DXpeditions, 2012 will be remembered as the year that financial openness began to make inroads into …

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Encore Performance: What Are You Listening For?

http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=22 Encore Performance: What Are You Listening For? by Wayne Mills, N7NG With the 1A0C operation opening up yesterday, it has become quickly apparent that not everyone read and heeded Hints No. 2. So, here’s an encore… Last week (No.1) we talked about how to study a pileup situation – …

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Duplicate QSOs Submitted to LoTW

http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=21 Duplicate QSOs Submitted to LoTW by Wayne Mills, N7NG After uploading a log to LoTW, have you noticed that your activity record shows many recorded QSOs and QSLs, but many fewer new QSOs and/or QSLs listed in the count at the top of your user page? This is usually …

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Using Propagation to Your Advantage

http://www.dxuniversity.com/dxing/weeklydx.php?id=20 Using Propagation to Your Advantage by Wayne Mills, N7NG We all experience variations in propagation, no matter where we are located. Of course, some areas have much better propagation to areas of greater interest. Topband on the East Coast is a good example. More countries are workable with relatively …

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