"Hank Oredson" wrote in message
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"Barry" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:58:53 GMT, "Hank Oredson"
wrote:

"Danny Goodman" wrote in message
...
If conditions tonight (29 March) are anything like last night, it may
be
a
good (if not the last) chance to get FT5 from the North American west
coast
on the higher bands, especially from about 0400-0500Z (assuming they
will
not have started tearing down). Worked three bands (20, 17, 15) and
two
modes inside of 11 minutes, and one more band-mode within the next 20
minutes.

All with 100w and a stuck MA5B on the chimney.

It also helps that the guys (especially the CW ops) have ears like
bats!

AE9F


Yes indeed!
They can hear you rub two D cells against your antenna.
Excellent ops!

Don't forget, they're running 100W to verticals, so if you hear them,
they'll hear you. It certainly helps that they are superb operators,
too.
Barry W2UP


Understood. Same power level here.

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... Hank

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The problem for me, is here in Pennsylvania, they have been at ESP signal
levels the whole time. I can sometimes hear them well enough to tell it's
them but not well enough to even copy my on call on CW. The best signal I've
heard from them is on 30m, were I was able to work them. But even then the
signal level was really 4 by 3. Looking at the propagation they are not in a
good place for the east coast at this time in the sun spot cycle.