[ADXA] Hawaii booming on 10 meters

Mon Nov 25 13:52:43 EST 2019

This was the first time I can remember that I didn't either hear about the
contest until it was half over or when it was already a week in the past. I
spent time Friday getting all my software stuff to work - N1MM+ talking to
DX Keeper  and separate serial ports for N1MM+ and WinKeyer.  It all worked
pretty well.

I also chose "assisted" and "high power".  First time I've used the AL-811
in a contest except a couple times on 160.  I found out that 500 W to a wet
noodle doesn't guarantee a QSO or busting a pileup. But I'm sure it helped.
I used my 275 W Johnson Matchbox to give me a decent match and the antenna
was the 134' inverted L on all bands. I worked stations on all bands 80
through 10 (one QSO). I used a spotting network (DX Heat) but found that
just because 15 meters has a page of good spots doesn't mean I can hear any
of 'em.

I just plugged at it in between football games, TV shows, eating out,
jogging, and going to bed at 10:30 PM. I did get up fairly early to try 80
and maybe some decent sunrise propagation on 40 but that didn't pay huge
dividends. I was mostly looking for countries and to an extent,
band-countries.

I made 105 Qs, 61 countries, 81 band-countries and 34,727 points. Don't
think I worked any new countries though.

First guy I heard Saturday morning on 80 was K5FUV. Heard N5DX and worked
his pop, ZF9CW.

73-

Nick, WA5BDU

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:03 AM Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi Joel,
> No big gun station here, but notice that Kathy had a few contacts on 10m.
> She was looking for new ones and so didn't stay on that band long, but
> notice on the Spectrum scope a lot of signals on Saturday.  Mostly to the
> south, but some to the east like EA8, etc.
>
> 73 de jay..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
> Behalf
> Of w5zn at w5zn.org
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2019 7:53 AM
> To: adxa <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Hawaii booming on 10 meters
>
> I trust everyone got on and worked some gud DX this weekend in CQWW.
> There was a ton of it on.
>
> As a bit of further explanation on my comment below that I sent in a hurry
> to alert everyone to a nice 10 meter opening, sometimes when I make posts
> or
> send reports I receive comments or a response that says "Well, sure with
> those BIG antennas you have!" and that is not always the case. I do have a
> standard set of antennas I use for everyday DX'ing but I also have
> "options"
> that I erect in various configuration in addition to those for contests and
> those were not all out when we had our meeting here in September. One of
> those options is to install a small tribander, in this case an old
> Cushcraft
> A3, fixed to the southeast to cover openings to South America on 20/15/10
> during a DX contest so I simply have to push a button to select it rather
> than to keep cranking a rotor back and forth. This antenna is only around
> 50
> ft high and is what I was using during the 10 meter opening and my "No I'm
> NOT" comment was that the larger antennas were not being used at the time.
>
> So, with a very small tribander at 50 ft during the contest on Saturday
> afternoon I worked 24 DXCC countries on 10 and 13 Zones. Total Q's were 47.
> So if you were just starting out DX'ing you would have been 24% on your way
> to a DXCC just using 10 meters this weekend, not to mention the others you
> could have worked on 20 and 15. I thought I read somewhere that propagation
> is dead, the sky had fallen and amateur radio is DOOMED! As Lee Corso says
> every Saturday morning on College Football Game Day "NOT SO FAST!"
>
> Only have a small station or just starting out DX'ing, or know someone who
> is? Come to the ADXA conference December and catch K5EJ's presentation
> "DX'ing on a Budget".
>
> The CQWW DX Contests are over for the season however we do have the ARRL DX
> contests coming up so get ready and GET IN THERE!!!
>
> 73 Joel W5ZN
>
>
>
> On 2019-11-23 12:56, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
> > Two Hawaii stations on 10 meter CW. KH6CJJ and WH7M.
> >
> > And NO I'm not.....I'm hearding the LOUD on a little Cushcraft A3 side
> > mounted on one of the towers at 50 (more on that later).
> >
> > GET ON.....10 HAS BEEN WIDE OPEN. 23 DXCC Countries and 45 Q's today
> > on 10 meters alone.
> >
> > ZN
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