George,
I am patiently waiting for a 160m FT8 QSO. This morning, I was up at 2:30
am local and saw that N5J had called two CQ on 1.836 at 0900z with no
replies. I got there 30 minutes too late!
I know it's not productive to sit on 1.836 calling CQ all night and get
only a few resposes. So, I'd like to ask if you could give us a time
between, say, 0600z and 1300z, 11pm -6am West Coast time, so that we could
look for N5J on FT8?
Another option would be to say you will call CQ on 1.836 on the hour, or
half hour.
I'll be 80 yo in a few months and getting up at odd dark hours is getting
hard on the body...
Thanks for understanding and for the other band QSOs.
Ray,
Arizona,
N6VR - CW
*W7YA - FT8*
Oh, a 60m QSO would be nice too.
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 5:22 PM GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv@atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> Steve,
> 40 m has been a problem at N5J. Often we have S9+20 dB over-the-horizon
> radar signal blanketing from 6.95 to 7.050 for hours at a time. We are
> considering operating at 7050, but that is very close to the FT8
> frequencies. We hope to find a break in the QRM to work NA.
>
> GL and 73,
> George
> N5J Team
>
>
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 18:46:31 -0700 Steve Harrison wrote:
> >Anybody know what the parameters or requirements for operating 160m from
> >KG4/Guantanamo Bay are these days? Looking at my 160m worked list, I see
> >that I'm missing one heck of a lot of Caribbean entities that should be
> >like shooting fish in a barrel 8-D But we don't hear many of those guys
> >too often, other than stalwarts like Kenny-KP4AA, KP4TF, and a few
> >others. Yeah, I know: t-storm QRN can be horrendous, especially around
> >hurricane season, out there. Still, once that's over, we still don't
> >seem to hear too many of those "rarer" Caribbean entities on topband much.
> >
> >Another that I'd dearly-love to work is PY2RO; but the last several
> >times I've heard him, although he was well above my noise floor and
> >working JAs, he never responded to my calls (almost like trying to work
> >9M2AX!).
> >
> >Right now, I'm waiting for N5J to show up on 40m CW, the last band I
> >need them on. I saw them spotted a few days ago working JAs... four
> >hours after my sunrise!
> >
> >Steve, K0XP
> >
> >
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