[ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters

Mon Jun 8 12:42:38 EDT 2020

Rick, I REMEMBER when you did that. I was amazed since I had never made a contact on the magic band.  Now, here I am in Florida with the best condx of the year...I will be back in time for contest and may be back Thursday in time for a late opening.

73 to you and Holly,

Bill

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From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Rick Roderick - K5UR - aol address via ADXA
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 11:33 AM
To: ADXA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters

It’s amazing how consistent year to year some of the 6 meter openings can be, almost to the day, to Europe. Not as much so for JA, but somewhat, especially the June 4-6 timeframe. Watch June 20-21 for Europe.

One of the biggest openings I had to JA was 14 years ago. I started working JA’s at 2355 on June 5 and stopped 1 hour 28 minutes later at 0123, June 6. I worked 161 JA’s, close to two per minute for an hour and half, all on CW. I didn’t look back past 15 years but seems I recall another opening when I worked 180+ JA’s. That may have been back in the 80-90’s but I couldn’t find the logs to check as they are in the attic or out in the shop.

For those that worked the recent JA opening, please let me know if you worked anyone in these four grids:

QN04
QN05
PM62
PN92

Those are the last grids I need in JA and would like to know calls signs to look out for.

73,
Rick – K5UR

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To: EJ <ejj at suddenlink.net<mailto:ejj at suddenlink.net>>
Cc: 'adxa' <ADXA at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ADXA at mailman.qth.net>>
Sent: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 7:01 am
Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
I never heard any on CW/SSB here either I was monitoring) but as Pat
notes most of the signal levels were in the -15 dB range.

ZN

On 2020-06-04 07:05, EJ wrote:
> Thanks Pat!  I need to download it.  I listened on CW as well.  Not
> much activity and signals quite weak.  I bet your XYL thinks you have
> "selective" hearing"  Hi!
>
> EJ
>
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> From: patw5vy at gmail.com<mailto:patw5vy at gmail.com> [mailto:patw5vy at gmail.com<mailto:patw5vy at gmail.com>]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:42 PM
> To: 'EJ' <ejj at suddenlink.net<mailto:ejj at suddenlink.net>>; 'Crownhaven' <crownhaven at bellsouth.net<mailto:crownhaven at bellsouth.net>>
> Cc: 'adxa' <ADXA at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ADXA at mailman.qth.net>>
> Subject: RE: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
>
> 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?
>
> 73,
> Pat, W5VY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net<mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net<mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net>> On
> Behalf Of EJ
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:50 PM
> To: 'Crownhaven' <crownhaven at bellsouth.net<mailto:crownhaven at bellsouth.net>>
> Cc: 'adxa' <ADXA at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ADXA at mailman.qth.net>>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
>
> I agree with some of the suggestions to spread it out a bit.  They may
> have been in there but no way to work them with the JA free for all
>
> EJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:16 PM
> To: ejj at suddenlink.net<mailto:ejj at suddenlink.net>
> Cc: w5zn at w5zn.org<mailto:w5zn at w5zn.org>; adxa <ADXA at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ADXA at mailman.qth.net>>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Massive JA Opening on 6 Meters
>
> Wore me out, was looking for HL, BY, BV
>
> Steve, QQ
>
>> On Jun 3, 2020, at 8:55 PM, ejj at suddenlink.net<mailto:ejj at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> saw you working the pile.  I worked a few but was trying to hear the
>> HL.  No luck here with HL
>>
>> EJ
>>
>>
>> ---- w5zn at w5zn.org<mailto:w5zn at w5zn.org> wrote:
>>> Wow - what an opening to JA on 6 meters. It has been several years
>>> since I have seen a 6 meter JA opening that good. I worked 85 JA's.
>>> There was an HL and a BV on but I did not copy them here.
>>>
>>> Also saw some ADXA folks in the pile, W5KI, K5FUV, N5ZM, W5VY and
>>> maybe others.
>>>
>>> Very nice.
>>>
>>> 73 Joel W5ZN
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