John wrote:
I'm not a super dx'er...just barely a little pistol. But does it really take
much self education to know it's a bad practice to tune up on the dx's
frequency or to tx there when he's listening up? How would you know? Well,
if you don't hear anyone else calling the dx there must be a reason why and
it's likely because he's "listening up"...sigh. Makes it that much more
difficult.

You'd be surprised how often I've heard *really rare* DX calling CQ
without responses.[0] IMHO if the DX wants people to call up, he needs
to SAY SO!

[0] for example... there was a YI9ZF QSL waiting in my mailbox when I
got home from vacation today. Yep, he was CQing on 17m without response.
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com