I watched a movie yesterday on Danish television:
The Big Year from 2011 starring
Steve Martin,
Jack Black, and
Owen Wilson. Two bird enthusiasts try to defeat the cocky world record holder in a year-long bird-spotting competition. Bird-spotting is about seeing (or hearing) a specific bird species, and writing down the day, time, and location in a log.
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| The Big Year. |
The reason for watching this fine movie was the analogy between the behavior of bird-spotting enthusiasts and ham radio operators, especially DXers. It is a well-known fact in our circles, that DXing can be an obsession to people, and it has the potential of becoming "the meaning of life" - at least for a long time.
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| A Year of DX. |
The Big Year competition for bird-spotters runs from January 1st to December 31th. It is similar to the
DX Marathon. The idea of comparing bird-spotters with DXers is not mine. I read it in
A Year of DX by Bob Locher, W9KNI.
Regards from OZ1BXM Lars Petersen
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