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a very special guest, Bernie McLenny. He was
first licensed as WB3JRU in September of 1977
and quickly became interested in working DX.
He became a member of the ARRL DXCC Honor Roll
at the age of 27. He obtained his current call
sign W3UR in 1996 and in March 1997 Bernie started
the first daily email DX bulletin called the
Daily DX. In the summer of the following year
he became the editor of QST's How's DX column
and in 2001 he purchased the 599 DX report and
renamed it the Weekly DX. He's operated from
two all -time new DXCC counters E44 Delta X -ray
in Gaza Palestine and 4W slash W3UR in Bacow
East Timor and other de -expeditions include
A61 AJ and AH3D OH0 slash W3UR VU4AN YU8 -OH2R,
that's Kosovo, and 8P9UR and J77A. He's also
been a guest op multiple times at 4U1 United
Nations and when not riding or on the expeditions,
Bernie can often be found on the air chasing
what else but some DX, working on his DXCC challenge.
So Bernie, thanks for coming on the show tonight.
Well, thank you Neil and good evening Yeah, we
wanted to talk some DX tonight and I want to
start off with some some tips for working DX
and when we talk about DX on the show quite often
and Have some of the the expedition crews come
on and talk about it and always ask what what's
your tips for you know? getting in the log. And
so we'd like to hear some of your tips about
working DX and also some ideas on trying to get
DXCC on a budget. If you don't have, you know,
the money for, you know, an ICOM 7851 or a...
Kenwood TS990. How do you suggest that somebody
on a limited budget would be able to get the
XCC? So let's hear about that. Well, first of
all, I would say, at least for the newer amateur
radio operators, don't be afraid to get on the
air on the HF bands, and six meters for that
matter. Don't be afraid and jump into the pileup.
Obviously, You're going to want to listen before
you start calling a DX station, but don't be
afraid. It's a great opportunity to learn. You're
going to make mistakes occasionally, and that's
OK. Some of the other things you would want to
do is to know what DXpeditions are currently
on the air or when future DX operations are expected.
Some of the ways to To do that would be to read
DX publications such as QST, CQ Magazine, the
DX cluster network into. Get one that you're
comfortable with. Especially with integrating
it to the DX cluster, you want to be able to
take spots for certain bands or certain modes.
Maybe you want to not take spots from US stations.
With the different logging programs, there are
ways to change those parameters to make the best
use of the DX cluster. Another tip I would say
is, especially for new DXers or even guys that
are chasing countries for the challenge, is to
get on for the The DX contest, there's multiple
DX contests that happened over the 52 -week cycle.
Some of the best ones, obviously, are the CQ
Worldwide, the Russian contest in March, the
WPXs, and even some of the single -band DX contests.
But especially the week leading up to the contest
is an absolute great time to get on the air,
especially if you have a low power or you're
a new DXer. You can get in there and work these
stations as they're setting up their stations
and testing out their antennas just before the
contest. Yeah, that's a very good tip because
we do a contest, well, It's not officially a
contest but we treat it as such called School
Club Roundup at school and it's Monday through
Friday but it's always right before either Jamboree
on the Air or CQ Worldwide in October and Everybody's
tuning up for that and so we get a lot of contacts,
especially on Fridays Right before you know,
it starts because everybody's get checking the
gear out making sure everything's working and
and you can snag some of those Yeah now as far
as you know a DX DX CC on a budget By all means,
you know, I don't know exactly what what that
budget would be but I would say Put your money
in either a tower or an antenna first. And I
say first, and I mean before you get an amplifier.
If you can't hear the DX station, you're just
wasting your time. The higher your antenna is,
the better. And like I said, I would put my money,
I'd rather have 100 watts with a... a dipole
at 100 feet or 50 feet or whatever, then having
an amplifier and a dipole at 20 or 30 feet. There's
a whale of a difference just being able to get
up as high as you possibly can. So I would do
that definitely before investing any money in
an amplifier. It's been kind of my experience
at least that the amplifier Is just gonna get
you through the pile ups better But it's not
always gonna make the difference in whether you
are actually hurt or not. It's whether you can
get through the pile up or not Yeah, to some
extent yeah There's there's if your timing is
right and you're skilled There there are a lot
of guys with a hundred watts that can get through
Um, at the, they call it the right time and they
can get through and beat the guys with the kilowatts.
So it, a lot of it is skill. Um, and, and also
just being able to hear what's going on and to
hear that the deactivation coming back to you.
Yeah, I totally agree. Well, let's talk about,
um, some upcoming DX opportunities that our listeners
might be interested in. We've got a couple of
DXpeditions that we're watching pretty close
here on this show. We've had them on for some
updates and hopefully we'll be talking to some
of them while they're on the trip even. So if
everything works out right anyway. So we're hoping
for that. We don't know that's going to happen
just yet but we're working on it. So why don't
you tell us a little bit about some DX coming
up here in the next few months. Okay, well what
I did was I've got a short range like as in this
You know the next seven days or so and then I've
got something a little further out longer range
stuff but for at the moment some interesting
ones that I've that I'm that I'm aware of that
I thought your listeners might be interested
in were there's actually two 9x stations from
Rwanda a 9x zero TA and 9x 9 PJ Both of them
are somewhat active for the U .S. listeners.
They'll want to try in their afternoon or early
afternoon, early evening, either on 15, 17, or
20 meter sideband. In fact, 9X9PJ called me a
couple of weeks ago. I just happened to be calling
CQDX and he came right back to me. There's a
bunch of C5 stations now active. that hasn't
been on, I don't think all year, but C56RU, C5WP,
and Charlie 5 Yankee Kilo, all from the Gambia.
Also, about a week ago, H44DA showed up from
the Solomon Islands, and I believe in the next
day or so, J53 Echo Charlie from Guinea -Bissau
should be on. JD1 Bravo Mike Hotel from Ogasawara
is currently on for another day or two. He's
very active on CW and RTTY. And then in the next,
let's see, I think the 20th, the 30th, two...
Two European guys are headed over to Tunisia
and they're going to operate from an island off
the coast of Tunisia. They're going to be at
three Victor eight Charlie, Quebec. And that
should be an easy one to work and it should be
an easy one also to get a QSL card out of. So
those are the short range, you know, between
now and the next the new year. You want me to
go ahead and start off with some of the long
range stuff that's coming up? Yeah, go ahead.
Okay This is you know, some of the more interesting
or rare stuff that's coming up in in the next
month to six months a 52 PD Papa Delta from Bhutan
is going to be on the first and second weeks
of January Nope, there's not very there's very
little activity. There's only been one other
operation. I think this year so far from there
Six Oscar, six Oscar. That's the call. That one
was written up in QST. I believe that was in
the January issue. Two European fellows are headed
over to Somalia, of all places. They're going
to be on from January 3rd to 16th. Also, over
in Africa, not too far away, Echo 31 Alpha will
be back on the air again from Eritrea. That's
JH1, AJT, Zorro, and three or four other operators.
They'll be there January 14 to 23. Bouvet, which
is probably the one you don't want to miss, because
that's going to be a long time before that one
comes back on the air. It's been a long time
since this one's been active. But it'll be three
y zero zed and they're gonna start around January
23rd and they'll be active into early February
Another interesting one that's coming up at the
end of January and they'll be specifically emphasizing
160 meters is zed c4 alpha from the UK sovereign
bases on Cyprus. That'll be the last six days
of January. Then ON6DX is headed to Benin. TY1
Tango Tango will be active in late February and
early March. Another one that hadn't been on
for about six years is And I never know how to
pronounce this correctly, but it's it's XF for
it's the it's the island the XCC off the coast
of Mexico They'll be operating with it'll be
one guy I believe operating with the special
call sign for Bravo for Bravo and that'll be
the first 15 days of March a group of Portuguese
amateur radio operators are headed over to Macau
That'll be March 9 to 17. Here's another one
that doesn't come on very often, maybe once every
18 to 24 months. Spratly Islands, nine Mike zero
whiskey, and that'll be a pretty big de -expedition
with about 10 or 12 operators. That'll be from
March 10 to 20. And then JG8NQJ, We'll be back
on Marcus Island also known as Manami Torashima.
He'll be signing portable JD one. And he works
there on the island for about two or three months
at a time and then comes home. But he'll be there
from mid -March until mid -June. And then two
more that are really interesting. St. Brandon.
And this is one of the best. the Expedition groups
out there at this time, I'll tell you. It's the
3B7A group, a bunch of French operators and they're
young and they're very good and you should have
no problems working these guys. They'll be there
from, I believe, starting about April the 5th.
And then the last one that I've got for you that
you've interviewed Don a couple of weeks ago
is the KH1. Baker Island that they'll be signing.
They just announced their call sign is going
to be KH 1 stroke November Hotel 7 Zulu and they
start I believe on June 17th and will go into
early July So those are the long and short -range
the expeditions to look forward to To to work
in here in the next six months or so All right,
a great list there of some great DX opportunities
for everybody. So make sure you are listening
for those. Some of those, like he said, are.
not going to happen again for quite a while and
so you may want to try to make sure to get those.
So for people listening here that want this information
and some of the news behind all of this and information
you have your email newsletter the Daily DX and
you've got the website for it and Twitter for
it and then you've got the weekly DX and so fill
us in a little bit on your Your publications.
Okay, well I started the Daily DX about, let's
see, it was March 1997. It's basically an idea
that I had. I worked for a hardware company for
15 years and kind of got burnt out and a friend
of mine, Rich Boyd, KE3Q and I came up with this
idea. And in fact, he actually came up with the
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You don't have to print it out because it comes
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us the URL there too. Yeah it's www .dailydx
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really the best time to try that free two weeks
is either right before a big the expedition or
the cq worldwide or some of the big contests
it's it it'll really show you uh some interesting
things okay so all kinds of information available
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and our first call is none other than Dr. Scott
Wright, KZeroMD. So, Scott, go ahead and ask
your question. Good evening, Neil, thank you.
Let me wish you a Happy New Year coming up. I
know this is the last program of 2017. And it's
a great one to finish the year on. Congratulations.
Bernie, I'm a subscriber, as you know, to your
publications, and they're just amazing. I marvel
at the DX news you're able to pull together.
I wonder if you might share with all of us just
like how many sources you have, because you really
spare no efforts in trying to find any source
of DX from around the globe. I'm always amazed
at the... great information I get and I do appreciate
your hard work at doing that. Secondly, Bernie,
I wonder if you have any thoughts more on a philosophical
basis about how we can get more younger people
interested in DXing. That's what got me interested
in ham radio many years ago and I still like
it a lot. So you're in a good position in the
ham community to sort of give us advice on how
to spread our interest in DXing to people who
maybe don't do it. Yeah, very good Scott and
thanks for your support and happy new year to
you also On the sources Well, I've been doing
this now for coming up on 21 years and I have
about 16 or 17 thousand Email addresses over
the over that time period and so I'm able to
contact guys and ask them things and see what's
going on obviously there there are websites and
Also many of the subscribers Such as yourself
send me items the first the first five years
were really tough But since then I think the
Daily DX has made a name for itself, and people
now know it is a major source of news, and if
they want to get their news out to the audience
or to the pileup, that's what they do. So, like
I said, it's kind of... Snowballed if you will
into a big a big ball of information and sometimes
There's so much it's hard to put it all together,
but it happens every night on the second question
about involving Youngsters I think I don't really
have an answer for that because we definitely
need young blood. But one of the things that
I am very impressed with is some of these de
-expeditions that are inviting youngsters to
come along and operate. There's a group in Ohio
I'm specifically thinking of. I can't think of
the guys call right this second, but they usually
take three or four guys down to the Caribbean
or Central America and they get them involved
in this. So things like that I think are really,
really important. Also, I believe that the Europeans
are doing a really good job with getting youngsters
on the air with the YOTA. Um, programs, uh, both
in December, they have a big activity and then
also either in June or July, they've got another
big activity. So, um, those would be some of
the things that I, that I'm, uh, impressed with.
Thanks again, Bernie. Thank you, Scott. Happy
new year. Thanks for calling Scott. Happy new
year. My pleasure. Yep. That's the, uh, thinking
of the same one you are, it's the Dave Coulter
Memorial DX Adventure. Yeah, we have Dave's brother
on sometimes from Hamvention and so we talk about
that some and we've had some of those young hams
on the show talking about that. That's a great
way to get them involved. We had another call
here, but we were talking to Scott, so now's
the time to call. So give us a call again at
812 -NATAM -1, 812 -638 -4261, and we'll keep
taking your questions as long as we can. And
Pat, K7 LNP, just commented a great show tonight,
so thank you for that, Pat, and I appreciate
you listening. commenting here on the show. In
fact, let me run over here to Twitter and see
if we've got anything over there. But I know
somebody else was trying to call in. So now's
the time. 812 -NET -HAM -1 812 -638 -4261. And
let's see here. We've got a message from Scott.
like everything else is retweet. So give us call.
Have you heard anything on North Korea lately?
That's been kind of a hot news item for a while.
Have you heard anything about it lately? Now
it's been very quiet on that front and I suspect
it'll stay that way especially given the current
Political situation that's going on there at
this time Yeah, that's that's gonna be a tough
one Are you planning on on heading out on any
the expeditions here in the next year or two
I? Don't have any anything specific I'm going
In late January, my wife and I are going to go
to, uh, sink kits down to V 47. I got my license,
uh, about a two or three weeks ago, V 47. You
are, but outside of that, I'm just kind of laying
low and listening. And if the right opportunity
comes up, I, I might be able to go, uh, go do
something. Yeah. Sounds like a good, good trip.
812 -638 -4261 is the telephone number and oh
Pat, K7 LNP has a question here. It says with
the new FT8 craze, which is really taking off
and boy that's an understatement. It seems like
a lot of de -expeditions are going to this mode
and Bouvet I know just announced. that they had
some special instructions for FT8 and they sent
that out on a tweet and said it was very important
that people read that so they know what's going
on with that. So he wants your thoughts on FT8
with a couple of the de -expeditions. Yeah, it'll
be interesting to see what happens currently.
I keep a close eye on the spots that come out
over the DX cluster network. And it's between
80 and 90 % of the spots these days are on FT8,
unless it's a special weekend for a contest or
something. But just during the normal days, it's
80 to 90 % are FT8. Lots of guys are getting
on the air and using this mode. I have not tried
it yet. I've seen my neighbor use it. It's very
interesting. And you got to act real quick. You
got 15 seconds. But I have heard that they're
working on a de -expedition mode. I hope I'm
not letting any secrets out. But there is going
to be a de -expedition mode for the FT8 program.
And they believe they can speed up the timing
between the exchanges. So it'll be interesting
to see what happens. I don't know if that'll
happen in time for the 3Y. I don't think it will.
And I believe, if I remember correctly, the 3Y
is going to kind of use FT8 on the extreme end
of the spectrum. In other words, 10 meters, maybe
12 meters, where the band really isn't open very,
very far. So they may end up using that to see
what they can do to work some stations they wouldn't
have otherwise been able to work. Yeah. And when
we had in one DG on the show, Don, he was talking
about the KH -1 Baker de -expedition. He mentioned
that they were working on a special de -expedition
mode for that. So you weren't letting out any
secrets there. But it's just going to be really
important to get the latest news on that, so
that way you know what's going on with it. and
you're able to get that in. But I think both
those big de -expeditions, Bouvet and Baker Island,
are kind of planning on just using that as a
supplement to things. And like you said, kind
of using that on the extreme ends of the band
where nothing else would really be feasible.
Right. Right. I think that's what's going to
happen. You're most likely not going to see it
happen on 20 meters. Troy Simpson W9KVR says
in terms of working DX we take advantage of the
work bands and glad many DX stations use those
before and after contests. So you think that's
another good way of catching some of those? Absolutely.
I think Troy's got it. He hit the nail on the
head. The work bands work 79 bands are just fantastic
place to be especially if you've got a decent
antenna I mean more and more people are showing
up there, but it's it's nowhere near 20 meters
or 40 meters or 80 meters or even 15 for that
matter It's it's a great place to go Especially
if you're a CW or a digital op on the 30 meter
band All right, very good and we've got a caller
on the line you need to turn your volume down
there if you would Go ahead and ask your question
here to Bernie W3 you are Okay, Bernie, this
is Mike Davidson in five empty I haven't had
much feedback Recently because I'm one of those
that got flooded here in Houston and my station
is down We'll be moving to Louisiana soon, so
I'm relying on your daily DX stuff to keep me
informed about my my side of the 1010 stuff that
I take care of for the 1010 DX news. Anyway,
the new country status of Kosovo, I believe I
haven't heard much of it recently, so get me
caught up and. You've already answered my second
question of where you're going for your anniversary.
Go ahead. Yeah, it's it's our 30th anniversary.
Actually, it was it was last month. But we, you
know, we're going to we're going to take the
trip in in late January and early February. But
Kosovo, yes, I there's nothing really official
that I can say. I'm hearing rumors that finally
The powers that be are realizing this is a country
and it's time to add it to the DXCC list. And
that's all I can really say at this time. I think
we may hear more on this probably in the next
month or two, I suspect. Okay. Have they met
all of the qualifications and it just needs to
be maybe one final say so and that's about it,
you think? No, no, it does not meet the current
criteria. Okay, I wasn't sure. Okay, got one
other little trivia piece for you. You know that
I'm the, like I said, the DX editor and there's
still about 30 countries that have never had
DXCC for 1010 and I suspect that there never
will be just because of uninhabited places, and
it takes a de -expedition person to go there,
and it's just something that will never probably
happen. A little piece of trivia for you. Go
ahead. Yeah, I suspect one of them is BS7. That's
correct. Yes, that's true. Well, plus like Mount
Athos, the Moncapalo is not a 1010 member, and
he's the only one allowed to operate. It's going
to be like that, you know. But any which way.
Anyway, have a good time down on your anniversary.
And we'll when I get a station and I'm going
to move over to Louisiana, I think. And it'll
take me a while to get set up. But I'll be using
a remote station from a friend here in Houston
to try to keep informed. OK, Mike. Good to talk
to you. And I'm sorry about the the flooding
situation there. It was really devastating. I
know. And thanks for all your support. Roger,
Roger. And Neil, I'm not used to your regular
name. I'm still thinking of Rusty. Oh boy, he's
really pulling it out there. There's still a
few family members that call me that, but that's
been about it. But yeah, that's right. Well,
yeah. When you're that young to get your hand
ticket, that's significant. Thanks, guys. Happy
New Year. Bye -bye. All right, Mike. Thanks for
calling so much. All right. Well, we're just
about out of time, Bernie. But thank you for
taking the calls. I'm glad we had some here for
you tonight. And Troy, W9KVR, again, says we're
really glad that the Daily DX has QSL info. Troy
does the same thing I do with the school club.
so his students enjoy getting all those cards
so we appreciate all of that so remind us again
how you can subscribe yep that's www .dailydx
.com and there's a there's a page there for the
calendar for a free two -week trial for subscribing
there's also qsl information and a whole bunch
of other helpful links. All right, very good.
Thank you so much for coming on. All right. Thank
you, Neil. I really appreciate the opportunity
and want to wish you and all your listeners a
Happy New Year and go work some DX in 2018. All
right, there you have it. That's a wrap. for
this week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to
my guest, Bernie McCliny, W3UR from the Daily
DX, and everybody out there in cyberspace for
listening and calling in. And we invite you back
next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time.
For a list of our upcoming guests, just go to
hamtalklive .com, click on the schedule link.
And so for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying
7 -3, 7 -5, and... Nessman saying good day and
may the good dicks be yours. This has been the
only news with Les Nessman.