Re: [IRCA] KOHI Still Atop 1600 Long After LSS

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Craig,
> 
> The reason I am so sensitive on the term is what I have heard from
> people like Les. There have been a lot of negative things sent to
> radio
> stations in the past few years and some stations have been so turned
> off
> that they will not even respond to QSL requests any longer. Some
> engineers are iriated by  DXers in general because of a few. I just
> would rather be on the safe side. Craig, you are a fellow DXer
> besides
> an engineer, so you know where we are coming from. But others may
> not. I
> just feel a different term will mean the same thing without upsetting
> some. I guess it is like saying someone lied or saying they did not
> tell
> the truth.


The other side of that is that there are some in the business who for
any number of reasons which may be valid or not who actively dislike
DX'ers, and those are some of the ones who will sieze upon the use of
the word here to push their point. Just easier to not use it and move on.

Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop


       
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