[Moon-net] bits and bytes

[Dimitris Vitorakis]

Hello Bouke

thank you for your mail and contribution to the discussion.
As you are not qrv in cw eme pls allow me to tell u that > 95% of all cw eme 
qso's are made on random, at least in the decade we are living in. I have 
made > 3,000 cw eme QSOs on 2m&70cm in the last 14 yrs and 98% of those were 
pure random. No prior knowledge of callsigns through skeds, frequency etc., 
whatsoever. Other colleagues have made much more QSOs than myself, in 
exactly the same way.
As far as chatrooms and loggers, this is unknown to the majority of cw EME 
ops for the vast majority of their QSOs.
In the context of noone knows who is calling, who will call him, on what 
frequency and so on.

So pls do not generalize when u refer to: ''I was astonisched wat 
information EME people send each other before, durin and after the QSO
First the sked on N0UK, or the e-mail sked, the frequency ,the calls, the 
locators and the sequence.
During calling mostly in contact with MSN ,N0UK and/or telefone
After the QSO also MSN, telefone and e-mail confirming....
So what are you talking about.....that you might not know the call before 
you start calling ??
Whatever it is WSJT , CW, RTTY, FSK or SSB, there is nothing where people 
know so much about each other than on EME...''

I invite u to join the DUBUS 2m and 70cm cw eme activity events every month 
to find out this for yourself.
You can see the dates/times at:
http://web.telia.com/~u37031777/
http://www.sm2cew.com/dubus-aw.html
http://www.sm2cew.com/dubus-aw-70.html

Or any mixed or cw only, EME Contest.

Have a nice weekend & 73
Jimmy SV1BTR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bouke Zwerver" <zhtech at wanadoo.nl>
To: <moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:03 PM
Subject: [Moon-net] bits and bytes


> Hallo All,
>
> I am a newcommer on EME aktivities after being 40 years on HF.
> On HF  I have worked all 337 countries , mostly on all 9 bands, so I was 
> looking for a new challance, and a good friend advised me to work for a 
> DXCC on 2 meter, also with a little help from the moon.
> So I did and after 1 and a half year I have 70 countries worked and I have 
> a lot of fan !!
>
> On HF, you know when a expedition started, what call they using, some 
> times what frequencies they use, and then it's up to your skill to work 
> them.
> Mostly without excanging the call, just 59(9) and once in a quater of an 
> hour the call of the DX station
>
> I was astonisched wat information EME people send each other before, durin 
> and after the QSO
> First the sked on N0UK, or the e-mail sked, the frequency ,the calls, the 
> locators and the sequence.
> During calling mostly in contact with MSN ,N0UK and/or telefone
> After the QSO also MSN, telefone and e-mail confirming....
> So what are you talking about.....that you might not know the call before 
> you start calling ??
> Whatever it is WSJT , CW, RTTY, FSK or SSB, there is nothing where people 
> know so much about each other than on EME...
> I agree with some members, if you don't like a mode  as WSJT or CW, OK , 
> so don't use it.
> This hobby is for your own pleasure and if you enjoy it, whatever the way 
> it is ...it's ok.
> Have a nice weekend
> Bouke PA0ZH
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