For what it's worth department.....back in the 80 I used to run skeds with a
VK3 in Southern Australia on a near nightly basis.
During the "normal" times it was the short path all the time.
Then we ran into the sunspot minimum years. On several occassions we worked
just fine, although weaker of course when I pointed over Antarctica.
Really wierd. This was 20 meters BTW, back when I had a 3 element
monobander running.
Dan/W4NTI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Courtney Judd K4WI" <k4wi at earthlink.net>
To: "SECC" <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: [SECC] Fw: WPX SSB NA4W(K4WI) SOSB10 LP
> This is a first! Today, Sun afternoon while trying to run on 28525 at 2040
> an ESP signal keeps calling in and all I can get is something Q7something.
> I
> fool with this guy for 15 minutes trying all combinations of the stack but
> keep going back to the one going over ZS6. At 2055 I pull out 8Q7DV long
> path over the south pole. I have never had this path before at this time
> and
> with propagation so poor. I have worked this path before early at 0900
> into
> VR2 and 9V at the top of the solar cycle several times but never at this
> hour!!! As soon as I finished a bunch of South Americans jumped on the
> band
> wagon and worked him. I didn't work a single Euro... heard the op at NQ4I
> working some but I couldn't hear a peep. This has to go down as the best
> contest qso ever. I am just glad that he was so persistent! I sure would
> be
> glad of anyone's opinion on how this path worked and nothing else except
> for
> North/South worked for me. But I had a good time even though the 1000D is
> trying to crap out on me. 73's Cort
>
> Subject: WPX SSB NA4W(K4WI) SOSB10 LP
>
>
> CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
>
> Call: NA4W
> Operator(s): K4WI
> Station: K4WI
>
> Class: SOSB10 LP
> QTH: Al
> Operating Time (hrs): 25
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs
> ------------
> 160:
> 80:
> 40:
> 20:
> 15:
> 10: 326
> ------------
> Total: 326 Prefixes = 202 Total Score = 139,986
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> Single band 10 mtrs is getting more and more difficult!
> Thanks everyone for pulling me out!
>
>
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