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Re: [IRCA] RIP DX Tests (was: Re: Rackley on Synchronous AM Boosters)

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Rick,

I get your point, but that only matters if you gotta get QSLs. A test without even offering QSLs would allow one to KNOW whether oneself heard the station, sufficient.

73, Glenn Hauser

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On Sat, 1/7/17, Rick Dau <drummer1965us@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 
 Sorry, DXers of the world, but it's high time that DX
 tests be done away with.... ÂÂ
 Â
 Back in the day, some unscrupulous participants in the
 hobby made it a practice of waiting about 2-3 weeks after
 tests were conducted, looking through the pages of DX News,
 DX Monitor, and other print publications, jotting down the
 details of what OTHERS
  were hearing, then sending their own faux reports based
 from those details off to the testing stations. ÂVery
 often, engineers would happily mail back QSLs to the
 offenders, totally unaware of what was going on.
 ÂFortunately, a select few DID get wise to the
  shenanigans being perpetrated and then began conducting
 tests with the caveat that reports had to be mailed within a
 scant few days (say, within a week or so) after the test, or
 they would simply not reply to the report. ÂThis was, in
 effect, to curtail the
  cheating. ÂÂ
 Â
 But with the progress of technology comes a downside.
 ÂThroughÂreflectors such as these, along with message
 boards, DX chatrooms (WHEN they work), and other means of
 instant communication,Âthe cheaters are once again seeing
 the information that others are
  postingÂwithout making their OWN efforts to hear the
 stations. Â DX tests were fun while they lasted, but, IMHO,
 they need to be put down.Â
 Â
 73,
 Rick Dau
 South Omaha, Nebraska
 
 
 From: ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of wghauser@xxxxxxxxx
 [ABDX] <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
 Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 5:48 PM
 
 To: ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
 Subject: [ABDX] Re: Rackley on Synchronous AM
 Boosters
 Â
 
 Â
 
 
 
 To answer Todd`s question about anyone hearing KKOB Santa
 Fe, recently
 
 in my reports and DXLD:
 
 
 
 Also, I have repeatedly called for a DX test to be arranged
 on Santa Fe only, turning off the main Albuquerque
 transmitter, however briefly (without of course, trying to
 set it up, myself; maybe I would if I still lived in ABQ)
 And now there is no CPC chairman.
  Glenn

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