[ADXA] Rick and ADXA

Wed Apr 6 23:17:37 EDT 2016

Things picked up a little today with FT4JA.   I worked them on 10 CW at 1629, then 17 SSB at 2310 and 20 SSB at 2351.     Still not hearing much from VK0EK.  Makes me wish I had a good receive antenna for the low bands - noise is a problem here.

73,
Dennis, W5RZ

> On Apr 5, 2016, at 11:56 PM, hamop1 <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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