[ADXA] Hawaii booming on 10 meters

Mon Nov 25 14:16:35 EST 2019

The CW CQWW date was a bit confusing this year as it is traditionally
held on Thanksgiving weekend but due to November 1 falling on a Friday
it through the traditional fourth Saturday UTC on the week before. 

ZN 

On 2019-11-25 11:52, Nick Kennedy wrote:

> 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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