DX Reports - use interesting DX contacts section?

[HomerBB]

You can be in Europe and log all kinds of "international" DX. I can almost throw rocks as far as some of the nation's are from each other there. Interstate QSOs in the US are often more distant from each other than most European contacts are.
It's not because international DX isn't possible on 11m, I have more on 11m than the Amateur bands so far, but that the tendency to disparage interstate comms is so prevalent. As far as I'm concerned a contact hundreds of miles away is the same no matter whether it's in the Eastern, Western, northern or southern hemispheres.
A mile is a mile.
No, how I feel about it won't change anything. It won't lengthen or shorten a mile, either.

 

[HomerBB]

The best one going for many years was the clusterdk, but the owner of it said enough and shut it down last year.
I have tried at least a dozen times to reg. with clusterdx.nl in the last year now and still can't get on. So I have just been using the DX27.

I quit trying a few years ago. Seemed they weren't taking on new membership at the time.
Probably had lost some interest in it by then.

 

[2NC995]

You can be in Europe and log all kinds of "international" DX. I can almost throw rocks as far as some of the nation's are from each other there. Interstate QSOs in the US are often more distant from each other than most European contacts are.
It's not because international DX isn't possible on 11m, I have more on 11m than the Amateur bands so far, but that the tendency to disparage interstate comms is so prevalent. As far as I'm concerned a contact hundreds of miles away is the same no matter whether it's in the Eastern, Western, northern or southern hemispheres.
A mile is a mile.
No, how I feel about it won't change anything. It won't lengthen or shorten a mile, either.

I log (for the most part) only other continents. Many folks on ClusterDX do the same. Lol.

 

[HomerBB]

I could log hundreds of interstate contacts to each international contact under the current conditions.
That's the only reason I may not log all contacts.

 

[2NC995]

I could log hundreds of interstate contacts to each international contact under the current conditions.
That's the only reason I may not log all contacts.

I can’t say the same, as I can often contact the Caribbean, West Indies, Central and South America easier than I can the US.

Maybe not 100:1, but I could easily be 25:1, in the other direction.

 

[HomerBB]

All about where you are, I suppose.

 

[2NC995]

All about where you are, I suppose.

I personally think the band is open way more often than people realize, they’re just listening for US e-skip.

If I waited for that I’d be one bored cat.

 

[HomerBB]

LOL

 

[groundwire]

Yea, the active dx clusters are always just the uk. We need one thats heavy on the usa.

 

[Big Kahuna]

Yea, the active dx clusters are always just the uk. We need one thats heavy on the usa.

Yeah - that's why I was thinking it would be nice to have someplace that US users specifically went to as then we'd have a better idea of what was working and where - whether it be from the USA to Argentina or CA to NY., etc.

 

[groundwire]

Exactly

 

[2NC995]

Several operators across Europe this morning copying US traffic on 27025. Problem is 2div being so big you don’t know where it was from.

But better prop is coming, for sure.

 

[HomerBB]

Well.
I would never monitor .025 for DX.
My station is too small, and my appetite too refined.

 

[2NC995]

Well.
I would never monitor .025 for DX.

Me either. But they use it as a beacon and log as “SWL”.

And I’m glad for that, personally. Because seeing the logs I get an idea when it’s worth trying.

 

[HomerBB]

I see.