I'm also not much of a contester, really. As a consequence, I never win the big ones. Well, I am a pileup junkie. I find RUFZ and PED to be limited in their appeal because they are only simulations. A true pileup involves real people utilizing unequal hardware, possessing different skill levels, calling from many different places, and all in pursuit of the DX contact.
Some pileups are orderly affairs that proceed at a steady rate with few distractions on either end.
These are some of the most exciting pileups ever. Because then, for the DX operator it is a matter of successfully managing the pileup and peeling off the callers one at a time until the frequency is dead silent. These pileups are magical experiences and a delight to the pileup junkie DX operator. W ith the rudiments of my operating philosophy out of the way, let's talk about the subject of this article. As one can imagine, out of 125,000 contacts, many different stations have been worked and many operators have been worked multiple times.