[ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters

[Steve Norris]

Pat,

Early on in the opening, the mess on .313 made hearing JA's really tough 
here.  Basically worked no one at the start.  Kept checking .323 and 
again nothing.  When the opening "really hit" it's stride, I went to 
.323 and started working the 4-5 JA's there, and never left.  Within 
minutes, the receive sequence was decoding 15-20 JA's every time, and 
fortunately only a rare state-sider.  I guess the JA's finally got the 
word about .323 for big openings.

As I worked the opening, you could sure tell who had the loudest signal, 
LOL.  On any given sequence, there would be 1-3 calling me, lots of 
single JA QOSs with scattered US stations.  And 7 or 8 calling Joel 
!!!!!!   Hihi.  Needless to say Joel was working JA quite a while before 
me .... and still working a few after I was getting "hiss" .....

We put 29 in the log, and has to "not log" at least 3 stations that just 
couldn't complete with.  By far the best JA opening here in over a decade.

Steve, W5KI


On 6/3/2020 11:41 PM, patw5vy at gmail.com wrote:
> EJ,
> I believe I read that in Release 2.2.0 GA, the WSJT-X team has added  additional default dial frequency presets for FT8 in the "Frequency" tab for the three busiest bands. 40/30/20??  I have so many added freqs for DXpedition Fox/Hound in my config I can't tell where the new defaults are!  I checked 50.323 a couple of times today and heard a couple of US stations calling CQ DX but no JAs on the "DX" FT8 frequency.  I've heard a few EU stations calling on 50.323 but the bulk of activity is on .313.  I use a couple of "slices" on my Flex to watch FT8 and SSB/CW on 6M.  I only have one antenna so I can't do single band SO2R like Big Dog Joel.   There was a lot of CW activity today but I didn't hear any DX on CW.  Most of the JA's were in the -10 to -20db/AWGN range ...not quite strong enough for CW unless you have bionic ears.  I've reached the stage where I'm blissfully unaware of annoying high pitched sounds...I can't hear them!  I'm not sure my XYL believes me?
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> 73,
> Pat, W5VY
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