NE-Asia/Oceania times
Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find
are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN |
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On 15 Jun 2004 14:18:42 -0700, (Ken Boasi) wrote: Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN Best time will be about 13 years from now at the peak of the next cycle, I think :-) Well, yes, but not quite that long. 13 years from now will be worse than we're in at the present -- if ol' sol keeps to 11 years, more or less. Things should start to get interesting again in about '08 to '09 and be nearing peak in '12 - '13 or so. At my age, time goes by so fast, that's almost nothing grin. How does that saying go? Time flies like an arrow... Fruit flies like an orange. As for VK/ZL, if 20's in decent shape (relatively speaking) you can maybe pop a couple of them, as well as the south pacific, around 10pm till 1am Eastern, but you'll need some decent aluminum and a bit of wattage to do it. This week looks to be pretty bad, but last week I was hearing plenty of ZLs around 11pm-midnight here in New York City.. Failing that, yeah, early morning isn't bad. Wait till the fall equinox and things should improve a little. Summer's always the worst time, of course. Don't forget, too, that as the cycle goes further down, look for 40 and 80 to spring to life during the late fall/winter/early spring months. I've heard many a ZL on 40 in the wee hours at S9+ on phone, but (sadly) few of them listen up for us 'merkins. Last year was my first for 80, and with only a low dipole and 100W (later 600W), I managed to snare about 83 countries on that band. I heard a VU on 20 around 5-6pm a few weeks back, and I'm pretty sure he was legit, and YI has been spotted numerous times around the same hours. Never heard a YA ever, and no APs heard here since 2002. No YB/YCs either. There are numerous spots from the northeast of VR2s around sunrise, but I've never heard a one of them :-(. Mind you, I don't favour a north-south route to begin with so if you have some aluminum and height you might fare better. 73 de Peter, W2IRT (ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX) Please reply to Double-you Two Eye Are Tee at Arrl.net |
Best chance, early morning and GREY line.
Ken Boasi wrote: Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN |
Best chance, early morning and GREY line.
Ken Boasi wrote: Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN |
Hmm...another 11 years? C'mon, I was looking for instant
gratification! But, getting back to the subject at hand, I have had a bit of luck in the WPX a few weeks ago, as Jim said (and nice to work you there, also, Jim), and worked ZL around 2 AM on 20. Just looking to finish WAZ, really, and missing about 9 of them or so-some really easy ones, too, like zone 2. I guess what Peter is hearing is going to be what I can hear, if you're in NYC, I'm further out on LI. This past winter was good-30 and 40 were great pretty much every night around here-worked my only VK on 30 meters; not bad even for my pisweaker 100w/dipole station. Heard FO/ON4AXU last week, and was getting set to work him, but at the moment of truth, the phone rang and I had to take it....krappppp..... I guess I'm going to have to start getting up early to go hunting-but I can barely get my carcass out of bed for work in the mornings...even earlier for DX might kill me. Oh well, there's always county hunting.. 73-Ken (I have no idea how my original post got reposted, either, sorry) Peter Dougherty wrote in message . .. said : |
Hmm...another 11 years? C'mon, I was looking for instant
gratification! But, getting back to the subject at hand, I have had a bit of luck in the WPX a few weeks ago, as Jim said (and nice to work you there, also, Jim), and worked ZL around 2 AM on 20. Just looking to finish WAZ, really, and missing about 9 of them or so-some really easy ones, too, like zone 2. I guess what Peter is hearing is going to be what I can hear, if you're in NYC, I'm further out on LI. This past winter was good-30 and 40 were great pretty much every night around here-worked my only VK on 30 meters; not bad even for my pisweaker 100w/dipole station. Heard FO/ON4AXU last week, and was getting set to work him, but at the moment of truth, the phone rang and I had to take it....krappppp..... I guess I'm going to have to start getting up early to go hunting-but I can barely get my carcass out of bed for work in the mornings...even earlier for DX might kill me. Oh well, there's always county hunting.. 73-Ken (I have no idea how my original post got reposted, either, sorry) Peter Dougherty wrote in message . .. said : |
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Peter Dougherty .......
That's what I was until a few months ago (now 600W and a dipole). After I wrote that article last night I spun the VFO around 20 metre phone, and I heard two ZLs and a VK3 between midnight and 1 am, so they're still possible. I don't get out too well on 30, nor am I a big CW fan, so I can't say for sure how that band is now. Right now, 30 is noisy. Very noisy. Almost as bad as 40 at night. Nothing like the summer to get the static going on the lower bands. But, this is typical, so I'll wait it out. No big one. 30 was good to me for most of the winter/spring, getting me some good, if fairly common DX like VK5, 3B8, 3B9, JY9, HF0, and KH6. Missed the XF4 and T33C on 30, but picked them up elsewhere. Most of the time, I'm on 30, 40, or 20 CW, and RTTY wherever I can find it. I actially just restarted my station in December, after a few years of being off, and a few months of indecisiveness. I started the country/state/zone count clean-I only took 4 contacts from my old log from the mid/late 90's and carried them over into the new logbook/logfile. The couple of entities I worked and didn't know if I would see again for a long time (E44, HK0/m, R1MV, and OJ0) I kept-the other few years worth of stuff was disregarded. So upon getting back on the air, I was wondering where all the Asian stations are! I guess that was the whole "point" of the topic. Being on the downward slide of the cycle doesn't help, but I guess we all have to make do for now. So, in the 6 months or so since then, I put up about 130 countries on the board and have most of the WAS done and WAC is finished as well. For a minimal station and sporadic operating times, not bad. Just have to get the cards for them. Work in progress, as per usual. Its been nice being back-nice ragchews in addition to the DX/contest stuff going on. That reminds me-have to prep and submit my CW/WPX log. The hustle never ends..... 3's, Ken/ZN |
Peter Dougherty .......
That's what I was until a few months ago (now 600W and a dipole). After I wrote that article last night I spun the VFO around 20 metre phone, and I heard two ZLs and a VK3 between midnight and 1 am, so they're still possible. I don't get out too well on 30, nor am I a big CW fan, so I can't say for sure how that band is now. Right now, 30 is noisy. Very noisy. Almost as bad as 40 at night. Nothing like the summer to get the static going on the lower bands. But, this is typical, so I'll wait it out. No big one. 30 was good to me for most of the winter/spring, getting me some good, if fairly common DX like VK5, 3B8, 3B9, JY9, HF0, and KH6. Missed the XF4 and T33C on 30, but picked them up elsewhere. Most of the time, I'm on 30, 40, or 20 CW, and RTTY wherever I can find it. I actially just restarted my station in December, after a few years of being off, and a few months of indecisiveness. I started the country/state/zone count clean-I only took 4 contacts from my old log from the mid/late 90's and carried them over into the new logbook/logfile. The couple of entities I worked and didn't know if I would see again for a long time (E44, HK0/m, R1MV, and OJ0) I kept-the other few years worth of stuff was disregarded. So upon getting back on the air, I was wondering where all the Asian stations are! I guess that was the whole "point" of the topic. Being on the downward slide of the cycle doesn't help, but I guess we all have to make do for now. So, in the 6 months or so since then, I put up about 130 countries on the board and have most of the WAS done and WAC is finished as well. For a minimal station and sporadic operating times, not bad. Just have to get the cards for them. Work in progress, as per usual. Its been nice being back-nice ragchews in addition to the DX/contest stuff going on. That reminds me-have to prep and submit my CW/WPX log. The hustle never ends..... 3's, Ken/ZN |
Ken Boasi wrote:
Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN Grayline propagation is quite useful on low bands 3.5-10MHz, please look at http://www.dxatlas.com/ for realtime grayline map software. On higher bands other than 14MHz the grayline is not so accurate, as a daylight is needed Kari Oh6io |
Ken Boasi wrote:
Here's one for you guys in the Northeast/Eastern USA-When do you find are the best times to work into Asia and Oceania from the NE? I've been back on HF about 6 months and have heard nothing from VU/AP/YA/YB/P2 and very few VK/ZL/JA, etc, only few on 30 and 20. Tnx-Ken N2ZN Grayline propagation is quite useful on low bands 3.5-10MHz, please look at http://www.dxatlas.com/ for realtime grayline map software. On higher bands other than 14MHz the grayline is not so accurate, as a daylight is needed Kari Oh6io |
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