[ADXA] Member Standings for Pat, W5VY

[Nick Kennedy]

Well, I just shake my head in wonder at all this 6-meter DXing.

Thanks in part to the ADXA background noise, I've picked up a couple new
ones on HF recently: V84SAA and T31EU. And that was after a long drought.
So I'm pleased about that and those should bump me over 250 confirmed on HF
CW.

I've been trying to understand how the OQRS / Club Log thing works for
QSLing. Sometimes I find the button quickly and sometimes not at all. I
think I'm understanding now that the Request QSL button isn't active unless
the DX station enables it. So perhaps T31EU hasn't done that yet.  If it's
something else I'm missing - clue me in.

73-

Nick, WA5BDU
Bella Vista


On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 11:57 AM Pat Patterson <patw5vy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did a LOTW DXCC application last week and it was approved in about four
> hours. Over the summer Es season I added quite a few new ones on 6M....all
> on FT8.  One of the "cool" 6M FT8 Qs was with legendary DXer Kan, JA1BK.
> There were openings where signal levels would probably have supported CW
> but I never could stir anyone one up on CW.  FT8 has the big advantage of
> providing a single freq where everyone can participate in openings and the
> weak signal decode capability allows marginal propagation to support QSOs.
> The downside is that everyone stays on 50.313, FT8, and doesn't check
> CW/SSB.   The 6M Winter Es thing is real.  On January 3rd I picked up NH6Y
> (KH6) around 0100 UTC and on January 12th I worked five VKs in 16
> minutes...all on FT8. The last Q, around 0130 UTC, was VK5PJ, Peter, near
> Adelaide in South Australia...over 9,500 miles.
> The path has shown up quite a few times before during Jan/Feb.  It has
> been suggested that it's a combination of multi-hop Sporadic E on the North
> American end that couples into Trans Equatorial Prop to cross the equator
> then more Es "down under".  Jim Kennedy, Ph.D, KH6/K6MIO, has done a lot of
> study of the path and has written a couple of papers describing his theory.
> There are lots of moving parts and they usually don't stay aligned very
> long.  For a couple of weeks after that event I would point SW around that
> time of day and call CQ for a few minutes....you just never know!  Someone
> has to make some noise.
> I was looking at Bouvet (3Y0-B) on Google Maps and found a large batch of
> photos taken by Nodir, EY8MM, during the unsuccessful attempt of the 3Y0Z
> group last year.  The photos are spectacular and provide insight as to why
> it is such a difficult entity to activate.  Check it out.
>
> Nice seeing everyone at the Russellville meeting.  Another FB Hamfest put
> on by the ARVARF club.
>
> 73,
> Pat, W5VY
>
>
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