<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Great post Fred! I see you point but let me throw this out there having been on both sides of the pileup like you as well. <div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I think your duplicate point is valid for top 75-100 most wanted entities. I would even kick that number up higher for special “DXpeditons”. Of course you could throw in anomalies like unusual band conditions, time of year or mode that would make just about any station a high demand DX. It is normally socially rude for the calling station to work the DX station multiple times and it amazes me how unselfaware and cringy some stations are of this. However, there are some stations it rare places that place a low emphasis on them being in a DX location and are not in the “DX game”. 9J2BO comes to mind immediately. He loves to chat on CW and I know whenever I work him because he is FOC there are other people waiting in the wings which can make it a little uncomfortable. Having been on the other side of the pileup, I get it how these guys who live in a “rare one” wants to take a break from the mindless 599 TU action and actually have a human conversation with someone they know or a voice from home. </div><div><br></div><div>Nothing is etched in stone. The way I see it is that in the end unfortunately it boils down to two things that seem to be in short supply these days. COMMON SENSE and EDUCATION. Common Sense as to know how to socially behave properly. Education as to know what’s rare, the DX station’s circumstances from reading DX news like Daily DX, QRZ, etc and learning the other station’s operating habits. Throw in a healthy dose of listening as well. Call it growing wiser or becoming more cynical with age but I gave up thinking years ago that all radio amateurs see the greatness of our hobby/service the way I do and I try to learn to accept these differences in behavior as QRM and part of the journey. To each their own. </div><div><br></div><div>Don’t feel bad, I have my own peeve. That is when I have a QSO in CW with a station I worked before and I call them by their name out of the starting gate because I use a computer log (ie TKS fer call Fred) during the first exchange because I’ve worked them before, sometimes many times, and then they come back to me and give me their name. Uggh! I wish I could say it’s because they can’t copy CW but the truth is it goes back to my previous paragraph. Common sense. Most of my them I bet can copy CW fine. And so it goes…. </div><div><br></div><div>Happy DXing! Enjoy the journey!</div><div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div>73</div><div>Ulis, K3LU</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 30, 2022, at 1:44 PM, Fred Matos via NCDXA <ncdxa@ncdxa.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;">Hello DXers,
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<div>Here is one of my pet peeves....best told by an example....there's a huge pileup to work a DX station. A station breaks through, and says "Hello Juan. Good to work you again. Your 59 signal is stronger today than it was last Friday."</div>
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<div>I recall operating YI3DX, and I received a QSL card from a fellow who worked me six times on 20 CW. They were not contest QSOs, so there wasn't any good reason to work me six times.</div>
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<div>I worked P29LL here on 20 CW on Saturday morning. I checked his QRZ.com page, and he has the same peeve as I do.</div>
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<div>The following is from his page:</div>
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<div style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I've noticed that more than 50% of my recent QSOs are duplicates and I find this figure excessive. Some days, the amount of duplicates has reached 100% of the QSOs in my log. I can understand that some people give me a call to say hi or have a chat when propagation is not good, but I cannot understand why stations work me for the tenth time on the same band, the same mode, the same month and in the middle of a huge pile-up, just to get a "59" report.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I also think that duplicates prevent other stations from getting the QSO with Papua New Guinea, which is a relatively sought country. You must understand that many radio amateurs have weak signals because of the power restrictions of their licenses. Also, some far away stations can only hear me during the grey line, waking up very early in the morning and during certain days of the year only. Let's behave like gentleman and let's use common sense: <strong>I don't work / log duplicates</strong> if they are in the same band and the same mode. QSOs in new bands or new modes are always welcome. I hope this is understandable.</span></div>
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<div>73,</div>
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<div>Fred</div>
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