gd said :

Oh, I'll get hammered for this but here goes. I'd argue that the skill
level of the operator is inversely proportional to the width of the
split. Martti might ask for stations to call up 5 to 10, or maybe 5 to
15. He has a very high q/minute rate. When some ops say listening up,
and they really mean listening up 5 to 50, their rates go the the dumper
because they are spinning the dial way up trying to find one they can
make out and sometimes call a guy who could care less, stepping on other
operators all the while.

I've heard some real winners listening up 5-50. Trindade - PW0T was
*terrible* in their first three or four days for doing just that. They
took up most of 15 and 20's DX phone segments because they just didn't
know how to listen all that well, or at least, that's the way it
sounded from this end of the pileup. On the other hand, I'd venture to
guess that when a place like PW0T goes up for the first time in a long
time, with a kick-ass signal like they had, that the wall of noise
they probably faced would make most of us faint dead away.

Personally, I'd like to have Martti cloned grin. We need (at least)
one Martti on each DXpedition! I do hope to one day be part of a
DXpedition on which he's at the helm.

Maybe, the name Martti could be transformed into a base unit of
measurement of how well a DXpedition performs. "Yeah, that XF4
operation was at least .8 Martti on 15, but only half a Martti on 40."

73 de Peter, W2IRT
(ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX)

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