According to Clublog's Leaderboard stations east of the Mississippi are almost
nil.
73, Roger
On 1/16/2016 12:58 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On Sat,1/16/2016 9:31 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote:
The propagation gods are not favouring us at all. K5P is a hard
reach on most bands and once you go away from 17 through 40 meters there are
literally only about five QSOs total on the other bands.
Now you know what life can be like in W6 with expeditions that are in the back
yard of EU. :)
The island K5P is a protected wild life refuge, and access is quite
restricted, even to the extent of the size of aircraft they could land on the
island. That caused them to decide to travel light, including antennas. Rigs
are K3s with KPA500s, HF antennas are SteppIR verticals. The 160 antenna is a
Battle Creek special, and I suspect they have run some Beverages. BTW -- that
aircraft got even smaller a day or so before they took off, causing them to
trim the team by several men.
Here in NorCal, we're only 3400 miles from them over water. Sigs are great on
160M, not great on the HF bands. 160M is a lot louder than 80M. I managed to
work them yesterday on 10 and 12 CW, but I had to wait several hours for them
to get from "vapor" to 229 to call them (and be able to copy my call), and
they never got louder than that 229.
I know about half the team, and I know they are dedicated to putting unique
calls in the log, and are favoring EU as much as they can when they think
there's an opening. On one of their first nights on 30M calling EU, there were
EU spots saying that 10115 had bad QRM, please go to 10116. I emailed one of
the guys, and the next day they were on a different frequency.
73, Jim K9YC
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