[ADXA] VP6D had great ops

[J. Setcer]

I agree with JAY.
My hat is off to the VP6D Ops. They were top Notch.
 They were polite, and accommodating as long as we were following their
instructions. They were polite bur FIRM when they had to handle jackasses.
Their English was good, Their rhythm (pattern) was predictable = easy to
follow.

N5QJ

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On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:20 PM Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:

> Now for a lighter note.
>
>
>
> Two nights before Ducie went off the air, my wife Kathy comes into the
> shack asking what I was up to?  My reply was---- something I shouldn’t be
> doing.  I had worked VP6D on all the upper bands I had an antenna for, but
> I didn’t have any low band antennas up in the air after getting the beam
> up.  I had VP6DX on 160m CW years ago, but I didn’t have them on 30-80
> meters.  So I got to looking at my tuner in an evil mad scientist sort of
> way and proceeded to load it into the shield of my coax going up to the
> beam.  That right the shield of my coax plus all the losses from the
> tuner.  So with my mighty 100 watts I proceeded on 30m CW calling and
> calling.  Even with preamp 2 turned on the 7600, they were not moving my S
> meter, but I could hear them plain as day with my headset.  I am sure they
> were running power, but I wasn’t about to try loading my amp into that
> setup.  So I call and called.  A few times they called CQ and you could
> tell they were hearing some noise being modulated by CW, hi.  I could
> imagine seeing the operator, pushing against the headset closer to him with
> his head down, saying to himself who is that weak signal that doesn’t give
> up.  My thoughts were ---God let me be loud enough for them to get my
> call.  BTW, I never turned the VFO, left on the spotted frequency.  It took
> over an hour and I like to feel over when they called me.  I got the TU and
> I was off to 40m on cloud nine!
>
>
>
> I heard the 40m CW pileup and went to FT8 on 40m instead of trying CW.  I
> got them on FT8 on 40m with just a few calls.  So then I went on 80m trying
> them on FT8.  That was just asking too much of the shield antenna I guess,
> but I quit feeling great heading for bed.  Not so much about my FT8 contact
> on 40m as I seen prints on that mode into a dummy load before, but CW on
> 30m with that setup was super cool I still can’t get over it.  Something I
> will always remember.  The next night in the dark I put up a wire I had
> laying around and told Kathy it only has to stay up a night or two.  I sort
> of fashion it as a 160m inverted L with one elevated radial.  It looked and
> still looks horrible.  However I worked them again on 30m FT8 and RTTY.
> Then 40m CW and then moved up to 160m, as they were not on 80m yet.  So
> even though I didn’t need them on 160m I thought what the heck.  While
> checking 80m on CW and FT8 frequencies I screwed up when I went back to
> 160m.  I left the split off, I bet no one has done that one before!  Some
> knuckle head came back to me W5JAY 5NN, like I couldn’t tell the real thing
> from a pirate down under his signal.  Anyway I noticed my screwup and
> corrected it.  Every time I called they would fade out, so I just quit and
> listened for a while.  At 0405 UTC I got them on 80m CW and 14 minutes
> later I went back to 160m to get them there just for fun.  I left the rig
> on 80m FT8 thinking they would be on around later.  I missed them by a few
> hours, but I was checking every few hours I got up from bed.
>
>
>
> VP8D wasn’t ATNO, but sure was fun chasing DX with friends, helping some
> along the way with computer and logging issues.  The VP6 ops were super ops
> IMHO.
>
>
>
> 73 de w5jay/jay..
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