"Hellen Marsh" writes:

Am I missing something? Isn't Isle of Man a modern populous island right
by England and Scotland? I mean, isn't it a 'normal place'? What makes
this a DX-Pedition? Does that mean if I travel from Seattle to, say,
Ireland,
and set up a ham station that I'm a DX-pedition?? What am I missing
here? I thought DX peditions happened on little coral outcroppings and
remote islands with no resorts on them..... Hardly Isle of Man....

Helen



A DXpedition is a amateur radio dedicated trip to anyplace where
there's some demand for contacts from the particpants in the game we
play. IOM isn't common on the satellites, and for a while wasn't
terribly common on RTTY, so a DXpedition would be appropriate.
Also, it's a relatively rare prefix, so a DXpedition there for any of
the WPX contests is appropriate. EI isn't uncommon in any mode.

But there are islands off the coast of Washington state that do rate a
DXpedition for island collectors. And probably counties and grid
squares in the state for people who collect those contacts.

In spite of what some people think, this is a not unworthy game we play.

73, doug
MD0BPI (once upon a time), also K1B, T33C and 3D2CI