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Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

To: Roger D Johnson <n1rj@roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14
From: "James C. Hall, MD" <heartdoc@nwtcc.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:35:23 -0600
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K5P was very loud last night and I had just thrown a 500' BOG down yesterday 
afternoon. Craig K9CT was at the key. I'm in NW TN, about 30 miles East of MS 
River.

73, Jamie
WB4YDL

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> On Jan 16, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Roger D Johnson <n1rj@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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