Hello Contesters:
Years ago I proposed a way to get more DX Stations on the air during
the BIG DX contests.....but the idea was apparently "offered before
it's time". It didn't take. Lets try an idea here for comments and
a new thread.
The Issue: How do we get more rare DX guys on the air during the
big DX Contests???
Looking for ideas from anyone/everyone.
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An Option to consider:
1. Pick the BIG contests that all agree to focus on. For
example: CQ-WW both CW & SSB, ARRL CW & SSB
and WPX-CW & SSB Others if you want.
2. Via this Reflector Forum, each interested party (USA,
EU, VK/ZL/Oceania, JA, etc pick an area or region of
the world, and ADOPT that area, country, group of DX
DX Ops that have been active in past years, but have
dropped out of site for say the past year or two.
3. The person or club doing the adopting would then send
a friendly but brief letter to the ADOPTED DX stations
that are far-off and encourage him to get on the air
for the DX Test, say about 3 weeks before the event.
Include log sheet and a copy of the rules with your
letter to make getting on the air a NO BRAINER.
4. This might generate 500 letters going out from all
over the world to these nice JUICY DX stations in
places like Pitcairn, Diego Garcia, V85, Macau,
Kenya, some rare African/European/Wherever countries
all over the WORLD.
5. If One individual (like me) were to send 10 letters
out, it might cost me $10 === maybe $1.00 per letter
on average. Not too bad. DX & Contest Clubs could
fund some of this stuff too. DX Clubs that I've been
associated with often have pretty big treasuries, and
they often wonder what to do with it. Often it goes
to DXpeditions.
I think this could be a GREAT CLUB activity.
6. That Club money rarely gets used to encourage DX
stations to get on the air during Contests. It's
often used to sponsor DX peditions (or vacation for
guys going someplace)
Anyway, this could be a thread that the guys in Dayton will miss out
for a few days, but ------- that's life. Does anyone else have any
ideas on this. Good Idea?? Bad Idea??
I would pony up a couple of hours to send a few letters/contest documents
to say....5 or 10 guys in countries such as Slobovia, Bullistan, Joveria,
and the Bingobia Republic and maybe a few of them would get on the air
during the Contests.
Ideas or Comments????????????????????????
73
Dale Jones, K5MM
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