Here's a lesson for all of us (expeditioners and DXers alike).
I just checked the 5A2A log search on their Web page and got this:
5A2A Log Search Results
The Database contains the following log entries:
W4ZV is in the log on 160m CW, contact made on 25-Nov-97
W4ZV is in the log on 160m CW, contact made on 25-Nov-97
Huh???? 5A2A is only in my log once, but I was wondering why there was
such a big pileup on P40E who was QSX up 2 when I worked him at 0240!
Then I found 5A2A who was listening on the SAME QSX frequency when I
worked him at 0252. Apparently 5A2A came back to me when I was working
P40E and put me in his log at 0240 also. This happens quite often
when working a hot JA opening since many of them often use the same
QSX frequency, and because we do not sign their call...just ours. This
goes back to Rule #8 in K1ZM's book: "Send the DX station's call if you
are in doubt about whom you are working." I was not in doubt about
either station when I worked them, but should have signed 5A2A's call to
alert P40E to the fact that they both were using the same QSX frequency!
(Of course I could not have done that when I worked P40E since I had
not yet found 5A2A.) Isn't it awful when someone steals your QSX
freqeuency! It's happened to me many times and there's really not a good
way to prevent these accidents from happening!
73, Bill W4ZV
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