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"Barry" wrote in message
... 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. -- ... Hank http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli |
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"Hank Oredson" wrote in message ink.net... "Barry" wrote in message ... 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. -- ... Hank http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli 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. |
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John Passaneau wrote:
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. Likewise here. The loudest I heard them was on 40CW on the second day of the expedition. (when I posted that item about people not listening...) Worked 'em on Sunday on 30 where they were pretty good copy. Someone spotted them on 17m at something like 0530z, I think that was Tuesday morning UTC - I could hear them but just at ESP level. Haven't so much as heard them anywhere else. (haven't tried phone) Would think 20 would be good fairly often and 15 in mid-morning CT most days. But it's their expedition - if they weren't having fun they'd be somewhere else! -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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John Passaneau wrote:
Their location is much better for Europe and the west coast than here in the east. My propagation software shows that for today (30th) its possible to work them at 1:00UTC on 30m, 4:00UTC on 20 and 17 and 13:00UTC on 15m. The problem is that they are seldom on those band at the required times. They have been on the lower bands working Europe not North America. As I work and I'm unwilling to take a day off to work DX they have been a hard go. Anyway Sunday on 30m is when I worked too. -- John Passaneau Penn State University I'm just a couple of hours west of you in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. The first band I caught them on was 17. Over the next several days, I managed to add 40 and 80 and last night, 160m. I'm all smiles. Dave K8MN |
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"Dave Heil" wrote in message ... I'm just a couple of hours west of you in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. The first band I caught them on was 17. Over the next several days, I managed to add 40 and 80 and last night, 160m. I'm all smiles. Dave K8MN I smiled more working A22MN and loads of other MN suffixes across Africa over the years. Bob, W2CE |
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"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
... John Passaneau wrote: 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. Likewise here. The loudest I heard them was on 40CW on the second day of the expedition. (when I posted that item about people not listening...) Worked 'em on Sunday on 30 where they were pretty good copy. Someone spotted them on 17m at something like 0530z, I think that was Tuesday morning UTC - I could hear them but just at ESP level. Interesting. Worked 'em on 17 CW about 0430Z on the 24th.. Very weak, but little QSB, and solid copy. Haven't so much as heard them anywhere else. (haven't tried phone) Would think 20 would be good fairly often and 15 in mid-morning CT most days. Nada heard here on 15 / 12 / 10. But it's their expedition - if they weren't having fun they'd be somewhere else! -- ... Hank http://home.earthlink.net/~horedson http://home.earthlink.net/~w0rli |
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