dx dx the ultimate contact sport. hey, how far can you talk on that radio?
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DXDXThe Ultimate Contact Sport
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Hey, how far can you talk on that radio?
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Do You Enjoy A Challenge?
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DXCC• The DX Century Club
is the premier operating award in all of Amateur Radio.
• The basic certificate is awarded for working and confirming at least 100 entities on the ARRL DXCC List.
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The First 100
• Working your first 100 DXCC entities is challenging but not difficult.
• Contest weekends will offer lots of DX
• Even a casual operator can “stumble” onto DX
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101 to 200
• Working the next 100 countries presents more challenge.
• Develop good listening skills
• Pay attention to operating styles
• QSL routes are important
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Over 200 and the Rare Ones
• As you collect more countries finding new ones becomes more challenging
• Stay informed of DXpeditions and events• Pay attention to spotting networks• Call CQ DX often
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Big Gun or
Little Pistol?
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The Station Operators with modest stations
can work a lot of DX
Patience
Persistence
Luck
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The Station Transceivers
Dynamic Range
Passband Filters
“Good Ears Hear Weak Stations”
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AntennasModest
• Small Tri-band Yagi or
• Vertical or
• Wire antennas
• Small tower or mast
• Wire antennas on 40m & 80m
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AntennasBig Gun
• Big beams – Large Tri-band or– Mono band antennas
• Tall towers• Gain antennas on low
bands• Receive antennas
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The Operator
Good DXers develop good Listening Skills
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The Operator• Listen
• Understand propagation
• Time your calls
• Listen
• Learn to recognize patterns
• Call CQ DX
• Listen
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Dxing Tools
• Spotting nets– Packet Cluster– Telnet– Local 2m nets
• DX bulletins
• Computer logging to track awards
• Experienced DXers– DX club
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Spirit of Competition
Contests are a great way to work new DX countries– Compete for ranking
– Compete against yourself
– Challenge your station
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DXpeditionsLet’s pack up all of our radio gear and go to a deserted rock covered with bird guano, crabs and mosquitoes and talk to all of the people we just left at home.
Brilliant!
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WP2ZUS Virgin Islands
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Wallpaper and Awards
Hams love to collect things– QSL cards– DXCC
countries– Awards
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QSL Cards
Working them is easy…
Getting the card is the challenge.
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QSL Bureau“VIA BURO”
Advantages
• Least expensive
• Good return rate
• Can send to QSL managers
Disadvantages
• Not time sensitive
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QSL Managers(Stateside)
• Many DX have stateside QSL managers
• Not very expensive• Pay postage both ways (SASE)• Excellent return rates• Fairly good turn around time
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QSL Managers(Overseas)
• Excellent return rates
• Can get expensive
• Faster return that QSL Buro
• Pay postage both ways– IRC– Foreign postage– Green Stamps $$
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QSL Direct• 99% return rates
• Most expensive way to QSL
• Pay postage both ways– IRC– Foreign postage– Green Stamps $$
• Use foreign postage on SASE for best return rate.
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Electronic QSL
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Electronic QSLAdvantages• Fast upload• Secure• Apply for awards on line
Disadvantages• Only matches QSO with other users• Multiple steps to use
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DXCC• The DX Century Club
is the premier operating award in all of Amateur Radio.
• The basic certificate is awarded for working and confirming at least 100 entities on the ARRL DXCC List.
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5 Band DXCC
• Award for working and confirming 100 countries on each of the following five bands – 80, 40, 20, 15 &
10m
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DXCC Honor Roll• There are 335
current entities on the DXCC list,
• 326 current required for the DXCC Honor Roll.
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DXCC Honor Roll• Honor Roll is
the most coveted award.
• Top of the honor roll is pinnacle.
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DX Challenge• Cumulative award
for working and confirming at least 1,000 DXCC band-Entities on any Amateur bands, 1.8 through 54 MHz.
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DXing Can Be A Lifelong Pursuit
• Propagation Cycles and
• Band Conditions
• DXCC Activity
• Non-Ham Radio Commitments (Huh?)
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DXDXFun And Challenging