[ADXA] KH1 Baker Island
J. Setcer
j.setcer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 08:54:52 EDT 2018
N5QJ here,
So W5RZ worked them 9 times, and I worked them twice. I'm Not sure if I
even qualify to mention my two green check marks.
BUT, I AM IN THE LOG on 20 and 40 SSB.
73, Jonathan, N5QJ
{PS. I wanna' be a contester when I grow up}
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 7:19 AM, David Norris via ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:
> Good Deal!
>
> I've been tied up with work out of town and office stuff. I did manage to
> get them in a couple of spots with 30m being the needed one. Odd noise on
> 12m last night prevented what would have been good copy. I nabbed them
> this AM on 30 about 10 min before the idiot showed up on freq and starting
> DQRMing them- OO notice is in the mail...
>
> I'll be up at Almond on 160 for the last night night/AM of this one.
> Sliding into home...
>
> BTW, there has been some nice DX on 6m too...
>
> 73 ES GL
>
> UZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
> Behalf Of Pat Patterson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2018 1:18 AM
> To: Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
> Cc: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] KH1 Baker Island
>
> Dennis,
> Glad you improvised to get KH1 in your log on 12M. They were pretty weak
> here and peaked briefly for about 5-10 min. We seem to have a constant
> battle with noise. We had a thunderstorm about 5pm today and I
> thought...great the rain will quieten down some of the noise. It dried out
> before 12M opened to KH1! A couple of weeks ago Sunnye and I were sitting
> out on the deck and we heard a big bang then our generator cranked up. I
> guessed it was the fuse on our distribution transformer and I was right.
> We called Entergy and left to go to dinner in a cool spot....our 8KVA
> generator won't handle the HVAC compressor. Got a text from our security
> system that power had been restored and message from the Entergy tech that
> an "animal" had caused the outage. Got home and found a squirrel near the
> base of the pole. The tech had added animal guard insulators on the
> transformer HV terminals and the combination switch/fuse holder. I noticed
> the next day that the noise level from that direction had dropped a bunch
> on 2M. So, I'm guessing there was some loose hardware that got tightened
> when the new insulators were added? We live on the lake and KH1 is across
> the lake....about 250 yards of water to the other side. Most of the time
> it is much quieter when I'm pointed over the lake. But their is something
> across the lake that at times generates S3-4 noise on HF and S2-3 on 6M and
> 2M. Haven't figured out a pattern yet. I've powered off everything in
> the house and confirmed it's coming from across the lake. Without
> challenges DXing would be boring!
>
> Try to stay cool.
>
> 73,
> Pat
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:08 PM, Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com
> <mailto:dennisw5rz at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
>
> That was me on 12 SSB. K5UR also worked him, and I think Jim got
> through OK. I have a 12/17 meter Force 12 antenna on a tower close to the
> house and the street and the noise level is horrible. I ended up using the
> C3 that has a 4:1 SWR on 12M and ran only about 300 watts. It's about 100
> ft from the house and noise is not a problem. I need to do something,
> maybe let the C3 be the receive antenna and transmit on the F-12. Or solve
> the noise, but there are too dang many modems, routers, computers, etc
> nowdays.
>
>
> So far, I have them on 20, 17, and 15 CW, 20, 17, and 12 SSB, and
> 20, 17, and 15 FT8. I guess I'm not much of an early riser - no low band
> contacts.
>
> 73,
> Dennis, W5RZ
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Pat Patterson <patw5vy at gmail.com
> <mailto:patw5vy at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
>
> Bruce,
> Glad the propagation gods smiled on you this evening. The
> first few days they were hard to hear on any band. Things have improved
> the last couple of evenings. I managed to work them on 12M SSB a few
> minutes ago. I heard them calling Jim, WB5AAA, but a DQRMer was tunning up
> and I didn't hear a completion of the QSO....hope you got 'em Jim. Also
> heard W5RZ or N5RZ working them....think it was Dennis.
>
> Nick, glad you and your "gang of four" (811As) snagged
> them on 15CW...good deal.
>
> 73,
> Pat, W5VY
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 8:15 PM, BRUCE PLANTZ <
> k9oz at comcast.net <mailto:k9oz at comcast.net> > wrote:
>
>
>
> I had just about given up on KH1 and it looked
> like I was running out of out of time, after a couple of fruitless early
> morning attempts. But when I came home from dinner tonight they were on 20
> CW louder than I'd heard them yet. So I dived into the pileup and got them
> in the log after only 20 minutes or so. That felt good.
> Bruce K9OZ
>
>
>
> On July 3, 2018 at 2:36 AM HamOP <
> k5yy1 at cox.net <mailto:k5yy1 at cox.net> > wrote:
>
>
>
> Well, been up since 1AM and seems like all
> bands in use are in FT8 mode of some sort, it varies. You might know they
> are NOT on SSB or CW on 40 or 80m. So, guess back to bed and maybe awaken
> at 6AM or so. Appears the ops are very hot and tired and most are trying to
> sleep some even tho just an hour past their sunset. Chasing DX is a
> challenge. Have Baker Island on all bands from past years but RTTY was an
> ATNO and now only need 60m QSO. Unfortunately they will only be on a short
> time tomorrow nite I am told.
>
> Gud luck DXing guys, I am sure nobody in
> the ADXA is up at this time.. HI
>
> San @ 2:37AM
>
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