Phil, I've listened in a couple times that KO5Y was NC and signals from him are not strong enough to consider trying to check-in from Alaska. Your location in the NW is much more favorable for me. I know there are west coast assist stations but as long as I am running QRP with the K3/10 that is the situation. Alaska is on the fringe for the net so this is not a criticism, only an observation. 14.316 carrier was there but the K3 notch took care of it for me. But the 14.310-14.320 band is very active with nets.
One more observation (that AK stations are well aware of) it takes 6-10 dB more signal than heard to work stations outside Alaska (the so-called one-way propagation). A station in the lower-48 running 100w into a dipole can be heard S3-S5 but it will take 500w+ for a station in AK to be heard by that station! I suppose the combination of propagation, local noise, and QRM are responsible. 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kW?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-testing*, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
