No, SDRs Haven’t Ruined DX’ing
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Ron Fitch writes that it is about listening to distant stations regardless of the apparatus
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DX News 26th October 2025
/For this amateur radio contest weekend, be sure to work these notable stations participating in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest on 25-26 October 2025: EA8AY from the Canary Islands will operate as ED8A.Gia, while 4L4WW will be active from Georgia as 4L0A. SU0ERA will represent Egypt, and Didier, FY5FY, will transmit from French Guiana under the same callsign.
The A44A Team will be on air from Oman, and Mark, XE1B, will be on Socorro Island (IOTA NA-030) as XF4B starting 25 October. Additionally, Piotr, SQ9D, will be active as D4Z from Sao Vicente Island, Cape Verde (IOTA AF-086). These DX opportunities offer great chances to rack up points and add rare multipliers during the contest.
Ocean Washes Away Almost All Expeditioners’ Equipment
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An enthusiastic team of operators felt swept away by the challenge of their recent Islands on the Air Expedition to the Pajaros [PAH hah rose] rocks off the Chilean coast. Then something else was swept away -- almost all of their equipment - by a steadily rising sea.
A Honda generator. An IC 7000. Seven bandpass filters. Two multiband antennas. A 500-watt amplifier. This equipment -- and more - is all gone now from the Pajaros rock where the team on IOTA Number SA-100 began operating on the 18th of August as 3G1P. Ocean swells of up to 3 miles metres - considered the worst seen in five years - forced Cezar, VE3LYC; Felipe, XQ7IR and Johan PA3EXX to be evacuated by the Chilean Coast Guard three days later. Wearing wetsuits, the hams swam to the rescuers' boats, eyeing the carefully packed-up equipment they had to leave behind on the rock. Already, they were making plans to return for its retrieval.
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