Last night was a good night.

Managed to land 'em on 80 & 40 CW, and then on 40 SSB for my first phone
QSO with the island.

The pileups were a lot better-behaved in all three places. (40CW had
been a madhouse most of the week) On 80 it was nearly perfect.
Apparently most of the lids:

- were asleep
- were jamming somewhere else (30m?)
- finally managed to burn out their finals (we can only hope)
- were too busy participating in the Disease Discussion Net
- thought the station calling CQ on 3523 was K3YO & not worth messing with

I see there's some RTTY activity showing up - maybe???

(a few folks reported 'em on 10 meters late yesterday morning but not
even a hint here.

ARRL.org reports the guy on the Space Station worked them - on 2 meters...)
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Ham stuff for sale:
http://www.w9wi.com/articles/4sale.htm

"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
...
Last night was a good night.

Managed to land 'em on 80 & 40 CW, and then on 40 SSB for my first phone
QSO with the island.

The pileups were a lot better-behaved in all three places. (40CW had been
a madhouse most of the week) On 80 it was nearly perfect. Apparently most
of the lids:

- were asleep
- were jamming somewhere else (30m?)
- finally managed to burn out their finals (we can only hope)
- were too busy participating in the Disease Discussion Net
- thought the station calling CQ on 3523 was K3YO & not worth messing with

I see there's some RTTY activity showing up - maybe???

(a few folks reported 'em on 10 meters late yesterday morning but not even
a hint here.

ARRL.org reports the guy on the Space Station worked them - on 2
meters...)
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Ham stuff for sale:
http://www.w9wi.com/articles/4sale.htm


Conditions are much better today to 3Y0 land. Just went to listen on 14.023
and there they were. Put in the second VFO and found who he was in QSO
with. Made exactly 1 call. He came right back. That's with 500w to Mosley
3 element.

Dan/W4NTI

Dan/W4NTI wrote:
Conditions are much better today to 3Y0 land. Just went to listen on 14.023
and there they were. Put in the second VFO and found who he was in QSO
with. Made exactly 1 call. He came right back. That's with 500w to Mosley
3 element.

Congrats!

I managed a RTTY QSO on 15 a few minutes after making that post; went
out for a bike ride, and when I got back caught 'em on 12m CW and SSB
and on 10m SSB. (they were spotted on 10 CW at the time as well, but
not even a hint here on CW.)
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Ham stuff for sale:
http://www.w9wi.com/articles/4sale.htm

"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
...
Dan/W4NTI wrote:
Conditions are much better today to 3Y0 land. Just went to listen on
14.023 and there they were. Put in the second VFO and found who he was
in QSO with. Made exactly 1 call. He came right back. That's with 500w
to Mosley 3 element.

Congrats!

I managed a RTTY QSO on 15 a few minutes after making that post; went out
for a bike ride, and when I got back caught 'em on 12m CW and SSB and on
10m SSB. (they were spotted on 10 CW at the time as well, but not even a
hint here on CW.)
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Ham stuff for sale:
http://www.w9wi.com/articles/4sale.htm


I gave the 28023 a listen and could just tell they were there. Quite
interesting tho.

Dan/W4NTI

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:21:09 GMT, "Dan/W4NTI"
wrote:

[snip]

Conditions are much better today to 3Y0 land. Just went to listen on 14.023
and there they were. Put in the second VFO and found who he was in QSO
with. Made exactly 1 call. He came right back. That's with 500w to Mosley
3 element.

Same here. One call.

Forty was an entirely different can of worms. What an embarrassment.
A pack of untrained chimpanzees would have been better operators;
although I'm damning chimpanzees with faint praise.

Wes Stewart wrote:

Forty was an entirely different can of worms. What an embarrassment.
A pack of untrained chimpanzees would have been better operators;
although I'm damning chimpanzees with faint praise.

The embarassing thing about the operator on 40 is the fact that the team has
been made aware of the less than stellar performance on that band and
obviously decided not to do anything about it.

Peter Lemken
DF5JT
Berlin

--
Paul Lincke ist dem Zille sein Milhaud.

(Harry Rowohlt)

I thought the 40 Op did much better last night. His rate was up and
he stayed on frequency. And , realy, it's there show. We have no
right to tell them how to run it.

And we have no idea what the conditions are at his location. Many of
the artic ops tell me the QRN is extremely high on some bands. We
just don't know.

I finally did work him on 40 last night after three days of trying.

Win, w0lz


On 16 Feb 2006 17:10:43 GMT, (Peter Lemken)
wrote:

Wes Stewart wrote:

Forty was an entirely different can of worms. What an embarrassment.
A pack of untrained chimpanzees would have been better operators;
although I'm damning chimpanzees with faint praise.

The embarassing thing about the operator on 40 is the fact that the team has
been made aware of the less than stellar performance on that band and
obviously decided not to do anything about it.

Peter Lemken
DF5JT
Berlin

On 16 Feb 2006 17:10:43 GMT, (Peter Lemken)
wrote:

Wes Stewart wrote:

Forty was an entirely different can of worms. What an embarrassment.
A pack of untrained chimpanzees would have been better operators;
although I'm damning chimpanzees with faint praise.

The embarassing thing about the operator on 40 is the fact that the team has
been made aware of the less than stellar performance on that band and
obviously decided not to do anything about it.

I wasn't commenting on the op at 3Y, I was talking about the idiots
calling him. Most of the time there were so many fools calling on his
TX freq that I couldn't tell what kind of op -he- was.

I think the DX should listen on their TX freq from time to time. If
they hear things like last night they should just QSY up 50 or so and
leave the idiots behind. The DXers who actually tune the band will
find and work him in the clear, until of course, one of them makes the
mistake of spotting him, then it's time to QSY again.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:00:47 -0700, Wes Stewart
wrote:

On 16 Feb 2006 17:10:43 GMT, (Peter Lemken)
wrote:

Wes Stewart wrote:

Forty was an entirely different can of worms. What an embarrassment.
A pack of untrained chimpanzees would have been better operators;
although I'm damning chimpanzees with faint praise.

The embarassing thing about the operator on 40 is the fact that the team has
been made aware of the less than stellar performance on that band and
obviously decided not to do anything about it.

I wasn't commenting on the op at 3Y, I was talking about the idiots
calling him. Most of the time there were so many fools calling on his
TX freq that I couldn't tell what kind of op -he- was.

I think the DX should listen on their TX freq from time to time. If
they hear things like last night they should just QSY up 50 or so and
leave the idiots behind. The DXers who actually tune the band will
find and work him in the clear, until of course, one of them makes the
mistake of spotting him, then it's time to QSY again.

I agree, Wes. I wasn't commenting on your post as much a Peter's.
But, I know where Peter is coming from, too.

Actually, last night, I could not hear most of the NA stations. IT
made it hard to find who he was working, but nice, as I could not hear
the lids.

All in all, I think it has been a great operation. I have not been to
bed before 3:00 AM yet. My fist is sore from calling, and I enjoy
every minute of it.

Win, w0lz.

"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:21:09 GMT, "Dan/W4NTI"
wrote:

[snip]

Conditions are much better today to 3Y0 land. Just went to listen on
14.023
and there they were. Put in the second VFO and found who he was in QSO
with. Made exactly 1 call. He came right back. That's with 500w to
Mosley
3 element.

Same here. One call.

Forty was an entirely different can of worms. What an embarrassment.
A pack of untrained chimpanzees would have been better operators;
although I'm damning chimpanzees with faint praise.

I know....I listened on 40 the other evening. I left.

Dan/W4NTI