[ADXA] Rick and ADXA

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Rick:
     Problem with VK0 is they decided to NOT go to the second spot which had clear shot to west and middle USA. So entire team will stay at current site. The current site of op has a mountain blocking USA except for east coast. That is why so many K1-K4 are getting thru on high bands. Due to GCB headings, a lot more K8 and K9 are getting thru than K5, unless one has a great antenna system. 
     My beam at 38 feet has not heard a dot or dash or word on 24, 18 or 21 and for sure 28mc,  and I have listened religiously each morning from 1100Z until 1400Z, including this morninng. NIL ... And I have changed receive freqs every 20-30 seconds to the ones showing activity. Wearing paint off the  pushbuttons on the 7600. hi
Glad you and Dennis got the FT4JA all OK! Good.  I just changed my 40m sloper from due east to about 70 degrees to see if any improvement and heard him a bit better tonight on 40 at about 0230-0300Z. Weak and the impossible DQRM as usual. Am glad the ARRL and FCC have agreed to reinstall CW to the license requirements and perhaps in a few years things will improve, especially if some of the Extra and Generals lose their license due to not taking the code test. 
    My sloper on 40m was lucky to work the VK0 despite being east and not SSE at 154 degrees. I got lucky but still no RTTY for ATNO and no 24/18 for ATNO bands..  The east coast guys should feel VERY fortunate to have worked so many band modes compared to mid and west USA. Rick and Joel have done very well on the low bands, 160 and 80m and did us proud here in Arkansas. hi hi  Thought about getting one of the helium filled balloons like car lots use, string up a long wire about 150-200 feet high and feed at ground level, hoping not to deflate the balloon and then the wire falls into power lines around my house. Uggg and sure death likely to all my equipment.... Oh, low SSN and flux have hurt the Heard Island efforts to offset poor antenna locations for getting to mid USA.... It is what it is, Rick...
San    Gotta run to bed ...

From: Richard Harris 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 11:20 PM
To: adxa at mailman.qth.net ; Rick ; George 
Subject: [ADXA] FT4JA

Like Dennis, I got thru to FT4JA on 30m cw at 0415 with my 100w and 
dipole. Great op on that end.... Nice... ATNO.  Still haven't even heard
the VK0..... Rick AI5P
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