[ADXA] Member Standings for Pat, W5VY

[EJ]

You got it.  Sometimes takes awhile before an expedition enables the OQRS.  Think they want to get logs proofed and in order.  The OQRS feature is great.  Are you on LOTW?  That’s a money saver with postage costs.  

 

EJ K5EJ

 

From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nick Kennedy
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2019 10:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADXA] Member Standings for Pat, W5VY

 

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 <mailto: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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