Just added my 4th new 222MHz state in the last 4 days! Thanks to John, K1OR,
I completed a 90 minute Q65 >>> MSK contact adding in New Hampshire to my
list. We started using Q65, where I again had multiple decodes of John's
signal, but he was not getting anything from me, so we switched to MSK. After
20 minutes of getting nothing, I was about to call it quits when I got the
first MSK decode of John's signal. With several periods of several minutes of
nothingness, the exchange finally came together.
FM07th -- FN42ir = 851.8km (529.2mi)
de K3SK
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From: 222Activity@groups.io <222Activity@groups.io> On Behalf Of Dave
Buckwalter - K3SK
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 7:24 AM
To: 'David Olean' <k1whs@metrocast.net>; 222Activity@groups.io;
NEWSVHF@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [222Activity] 222 MHz Activity Night
I started 222 evening around 2130 UTC while calling CQ using Q65 off the moon,
I got a chat message on HB9Q from John, K1OR. He said he would listen for
me. After a few minutes of no copy, John realized I was on EME and he wasn't.
I still need NH on 222 and was excited about the chance to make the
connection, so I dropped the elevation and rotated the array around toward
FN42. I copied John on quite a few sequences over the next 30 minutes. His
signals were between -16 and -23 indicating a lot of QSB. Unfortunately, John
reported he had a very high noise level, and never copied my transmissions.
QSB was prevalent the remainder of the evening, and signals were down quite a
bit, with me only working 4 stations.
WA4NUF SSB
WZ1V FT8
K9MRI FT8
KO4YC SSB ( I also heard WZ1V SSB work KO4YC before QSB took him out.
There was also another SSB station not copied, right at the noise level).
As a full disclosure, I also was multi-tasking and not paying a lot of
attention to operating. I had the air fryer on my work bench and was
performing surgery to repair a self-inflicted casualty. The mounting screws
for the air fryer fan had come loose and the fan rattled and while attempting
to tighten it, I broke a wire from the motor winding. To make the repair, I
had to completely remove the motor and unwind one turn from the motor coil so
it would reach back to the connection point I had broken it from.
FYI -- I have been and will be for the remainder of this week listening on 222
EME around moon rise here on the east coast. I will be logged in on the HB9Q
222 page.
Dave
K3SK - FM07
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