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

[Les Rayburn <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick,

Iâve got a tremendous amount of respect for you, and your considerable accomplishments within this hobby. But I could not disagree more. 

During my brief tenure as the CPC Chairman, Iâd say about 80% of all loggings submitted to me contained electronic recordings of the actual loggings, along with detailed descriptions. And more than a few reported âno copyâ as the result. If you look back at reports of DX test on this reflector and others, youâll see a large number of reports where DXâers fail to hear the targeted station. 

The only notable exception was one DXâer in California who literally claimed to hear every test, regardless of power and locationâon a Sony portable radio. After speaking with him a few times by phone, I realized that he had some challenges with mental healthâand accepted that. 

Most DXâers are completely honest, and realize that âcheatingâ on a hobby like this cheats only yourself. 

Besides, I love DX tests! Wish we had a ton more of them. 

YMMV. 

And I still admire and respect you sir. 


73,

Les Rayburn, N1LF
121 Mayfair Park
Maylene, AL 
EM63nf

Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. 

Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. 


> On Jan 7, 2017, at 1:08 AM, Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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....   
>  
> 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.  Very
> often, engineers would happily mail back QSLs to the
> offenders, totally unaware of what was going on.
>  Fortunately, 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.  This was, in
> effect, to curtail the
>  cheating.   
>  
> But with the progress of technology comes a downside.
>  Through reflectors such as these, along with message
> boards, DX chatrooms (WHEN they work), and other means of
> instant communication, the cheaters are once again seeing
> the information that others are
>  posting without making their OWN efforts to hear the
> stations.   DX tests were fun while they lasted, but, IMHO,
> they need to be put down. 
>  
> 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
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 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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