"Those are motivating numbers! You must have been might tired to fall
asleep with so many callers. :) "
The main thing is not quantity but quality :-)))))
In addition, sometimes it took a long time to call the station. For
example, I called VY2TT for 15 minutes and didn't get through... There
were several other stations that didn't hear me.
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Nick, UY0ZG
http://www.topband.in.ua
W3HKK@roadrunner.com писал 2023-02-20 22:46:
Those are motivating numbers! You must have been might tired to fall
asleep with so many callers. :)
I started on 160 but only worked a couple of Caribbean stations.
Nothing copied from EU so I migrated to 80 ( not much) then 40, and
finally to modulate the pillow.
Last October I built a home brew 10M Moxon. using all left over
plastic and aluminum. Its an ugly looking, tilted/slightly twisted
thing ( holes drilled by "eye" and the eyes arent that accurate
anymore!) but it works like gangbusters. Its on a 15 ft mast on the
back patio, turned by the Armstrong Method.
After an 8am start on 20m at my sunrise, I jumped to 10 since it was
almost as busy and has a lot more elbow room. Wound up with 479 qsos
in 11 hrs OTA, including 73 JA's, two DU's and one YJ plus a half
dozen VK/ZL, nine KH6's and 8 KL7's. Overall the northern latitudes
were ample, but not much from the equatorial regions or below. More
Russian/Ukrainian stations that in recent past.
10M kept me busy all morning and for two hours around sunset. I had
hoped to find more success on 160/80 and esp. on 40 into JA/VK - but
not much doing.
The Moxon is so close to the shack that when I beam JA ( through the
shack) the rf keeps knocking my mouse offline, forcing me to pull the
usb plug out and then reinsert. It corrects the problem until I
transmit again. However I have better success when Im beaming EU, AF,
SA and due west to the Pacific. Something about JA.... but at least I
know the Moxon has some directionality.
Speaking of JA ( and your music) I found a youtube video of Sing Sing
Sing, played by an all Japanese Big Band. Very enjoyable! Musicians
average age looked to be 65-70 but they were having fun! Complete with
a few beards goutees and snappy mustaches. All in white suits!
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