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>* H E A R D I S L A N D D X - P E D I T I O N *
>* PILOT PROGRAM MESSAGE # 77 *
>* MORE ON HEARD - MONDAY JAN 20, 22:45 GMT *
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>
>QSL SERVERS
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>Some time later on tonight all QSO's up to Sunday 20 Jan,
>07:10 GMT should be available on the log servers. The logs
>were forwarded to the servers around 21:30 z on Monday eve-
>ning.
>
>SUNDAY NIGHT ON 80 METERS
>-------------------------
>In one of our previous messages I said I heard VK0IR working
>as far West as Colorado. Here is what W0YG wrote today:
>"... I would just like to report that KV0Q and W0YG had solid
>80M QSO's (W0MS, K0CS, N3SL and WE0MS are not 100% sure) though.
>VK0IR was in here with good copy, 559, from about 00:15 until
>about 00:50 when he faded out. He came in over Europe, about
>45 degrees for us. I could only hear him on my northeast
>sloper.... (tks W0YG)"
>
>MONDAY NIGHT ON THE LOW BANDS
>-----------------------------
>19:00 z: VK0IR is solid 599 on 1826.5 (why not 1822 as
>announced?) and 59+20 on 3799 with Harry, RA3AUU at the mike.
>Incredible operation. Am I dreaming? This is UNREAL! I hear
>Europeans with 100 Watt and relatively simple antennas
>working them on 160!
>
>80 METERS WEST COAST
>--------------------
>Glenn, K6NA reported that VK0IR appeared at 15:00z on 3.507
>and worked N6ND, K6XT, K6JYO. After about 15:15z they were
>working lots of guys up north. Glenn continues "Congrats
>to the team for hanging in there to give us a chance on
>this most difficult path!!!!! "
>
>MORE ON 80 AND 160
>------------------
>Some excellent advise from 160 m specialist # 1 (W4ZV):
>"..The only conclusion I have is that you need to be there
>as often and as long as you can, both before your sunset
>and after their sunrise, use as many different RX antennas
>as you can muster, and switch around until you find
>something that works. It just AMAZES me that they were
>so consistently from the Southeast on 80 yet NEVER came
>from that direction on 160. It's hard for me to understand
>how these bands can be so close in frequency yet so
>different in propagation...."
>
>160 AND 80 M FOR JAPAN
>----------------------
>Our JA-friends really have been spoiled tonight. JH1ORA, Kaz
>wrote: "At 18:10z, I heard VK0IR on 1826.5 working Up 5-8.
>It was the best signal, I've ever heard, solid 599 plus.
>Since, just same time, Harry was carrying 80m SSB, I
>requested "listen JA" and a few minuts later, at 18:30z,
>the 160m OP changed his QSX to JA. Great job! Finaly, many
>JAs got a new one on 160m until 19:30z. It was an excellent
>show. Thank you again."
>
>73,
>
>Your pilots: ON4UN, N1DG, W0EK, K0EU, W4WW, W2IJ, JH1ROJ
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