A friend was on a DX-pedition last year to some small, gawd forsaken island in the pacific. Took ‘em like almost 40 hours to get there. 

After the DX-pedition was over, someone posted a recording on the internet of what the operator was hearing. I listened to it for several minutes. I would say, 95% of the time, the station that I would have answered is the one that the operator did answer. It was very interesting to hear the pile up from his prospective. 

Back in 1985 or ‘86 I was in Australia. I got the temporary call of VK2BVS. I was able to go over to a ham’s house who had a 40 meter beam up about 80 feet. It was great fun calling CQ on 40 meters and working the pile up. 


-Bob Ringwald K6YBV
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First you forget names,
then you forget faces.
Then you forget to pull up your zipper...
it's worse when you forget to pull it down.