[ADXA] How's DX?

[BILL KENNAMER]

Unfortunately, TO9W copied me as K5FVV, no matter how many times I tried to correct. Glad I don’t really need it.
FUV 


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On Monday, December 6, 2021, 8:04 PM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:


"How's DX?" has been the title of the DX column in QST for, well, forever! Our friend Bernie, W3UR, of The Daily DX and The Weekly DX (and has been our guest at our annual conference) is the current editor of the column and has been for several years. He does an excellent job. The point in my question of "How's DX?" is rooted in the silence that has fallen on our reflector the past couple of weeks. We had quite a jolt of activity in October and November with some DXpeditions. Most of us did not need them for an all time new one but some did for a new one on a specific band. Wow wasn't that fun and exciting to have a blast of DX, regardless of where it came from?

But alas, the bands have gone dead it seems. I'm sitting here tonight listening to TO9W on 160 and 80 meters just to have some action in the shack. I just heard K5FUV nab them on 160 and I see BIG GUN N5ZM in the pileup on 80. So some of us are in there lurking for some action!

I'm still in recovery from CQWW and the ARRL 160 Meter contests. The original plan at W5ZN for CQWW was to run multi-single however after we lost two ops it was just down to Dave, NN1N and I. So we ran as two separate single band entries. Dave ran on 40 meters with is call, NN1N, to test drive the additional 40 meter beam I now have up in addition to the W6NL 2 element 40 meter Moxon. I can phase them or run them individually and both are fully rotatable. I was very pleased with the results of his "test drive". Its nothing like the massive (and very impressive) 40 meter array that K5GO had but it is respectable. I ran as a single band 160 meter entry and was pleased with my effort. I had one east coast guy top me for #1 USA. Its just near impossible to top the east coast guys who can sit there and run high point EU QSO's all night however my showing was very respectable and I was pleased with the result.

For the ARRL 160 meter contest this past weekend (the weekend following CQWW) I didn't want to spend another weekend staying up all night for two nights (yes K5UR, I AM a weenie) so I joined the N2CEI multi-op team in north Florida. This year Steve and his team of K0DI and WW2R used Dave, WW2R's callsign. So, if you worked WW2R between 0200-0600z either night, I was the op. I know I put a couple of ADXA folks in the log during that time like Nick WA5BDU and another one or two. I saw a few others entered during my off times including WB5BHS and others.

This coming weekend is the ARRL 10 Meter contest. This contest allows operation on both CW and SSB during the weekend. Pay attention to the band. You never know when it will pop open in December. Listen carefully for Africa and South America for a country you may need. They WILL be in there.

Time slips by and so has the time for our 4th Quarter Newsletter. I will get something to Glenn this week and also a report on our meeting last month. If you have something for the newsletter please forward it to Glenn. We need to know what you have been doing. Write it up and send it in!

73 W5ZN
ADXA President
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