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 Sent from my iPad > On Jan 16, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Roger D Johnson <[email protected]> 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 >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
