[ADXA] Nice JA opening and then KL7 showed up

Fri Jul 16 10:22:38 EDT 2021

Good write-up Jay.   I guess if 6m was always like this, we'd not be as 
excited, LOL.  Sure hope the coming solar cycle surprises us all too 
....  73, Steve, W5KI

On 7/16/2021 12:12 AM, Jay Bromley wrote:
>
> Hi ADXA,
>
> Well last night (now) was exciting and fun on 6m!
>
> I texted as many folks as I could while working the huge pileup that 
> W5KI started, hi.  While just sitting here at my desk my beam was 
> pointed SE looking to get YA1AG in the log.  Not sure why as he 
> doesn’t do LOTW?  Anyway that’s when I saw W5KI call CQ AS off the 
> side of the beam. My screen was pretty blank except for the YA1.  In 
> the past I have learned if Steve is seeing a JA opening it will be 
> just a matter of time before I print them here.  Usually 10-20 minutes 
> later.  Like Earl said yesterday, sometimes a few miles between 
> stations can make a huge difference on 6m propagation!  Tonight wasn’t 
> one of those.  So after seeing W5KI CQ AS on the screen I swung the 
> beam around to 320 degrees and BAM, I had a screen full of JA stations 
> being printed like never before!  Unlike the last JA opening here, 
> this time the propagation stayed around for more than 20 minutes.  
> Then they came and went for a few hours!  At my QTH this started at 
> 2240 UTC July 15 and the last JA station I saw was JO1PSX at 0231 UTC 
> July 16, 2021!
>
> I know this is nothing like working hundreds of JAs like W5ZN or K5UR 
> did on CW many years ago, but I am only using 50 watts with 
> compromised SteppIR beam!  I am not complaining mind you, I guess what 
> I am trying to say is to get into the game if you not chasing 6m DX!  
> Like DXing in general wish I had done it sooner!  You are missing out 
> big time if you don’t, IMHO! Still my BB gun station managed to get 30 
> plus JA’s into the log!  I Could have worked even more, but needed to 
> do some housekeeping in the DXKeeper log.  I wanted to be sure to get 
> everyone I could in the log.  At times WSJT-X would do some weird 
> stuff like working two stations at once!  I am not sure how this 
> happen?  Probably I somehow misfired the mouse, but wish I knew how I 
> did that for the future openings, hi.  Even one station worked me 
> again that was in my log back in 2019. That was superstation JA7QVI. 
> Wow 4X7 element array!  See TAC’s station on QRZ.com/lookup/db/JA7QVI  
> Very cool to see TAC’s station and he seems like a super nice ham!  
> Usually I love to look over other stations pictures and read their bio 
> on QRZ.com while working FT8.  Tonight there was enough time to do 
> things like reading their bio or look at pictures via JTAlert’s QRZ 
> look up button!  It was mind draining for sure along with be a ton of 
> fun!
>
> I don’t think I can share screen shots here, but at the peak of the 
> pileup was something.  At times JTAlert was totally full!
>
> Stations I saw here on the western front included K5YCM, W5KI, K5CKS, 
> and W5SJ were doing their best to thin the heard out as well, hi.  I 
> am sure there were others I that I didn’t see on the air that are ADXA 
> members.  This is the first time I sort of quit to take a break from 
> the fast and furious screens.  Many requests from stations saying 
> where they were transmitting on XYZ __Hz “Work Me NOW”!  There just 
> wasn’t enough time to get all of them in the log while 10 or more are 
> calling at the same time!
>
> Finally, after the big JA pileup I saw KL7NC for the first time on 6m 
> tonight and at my QTH Robert was -03 S/N here!  So I knew I had a 
> chance to get AK in the log for first time, but then he faded 
> super-fast!  That would have been my last state and an ATNO/country 
> for me on 6m. Still after he faded I let the watchdog timer kick out 
> twice while calling him blind!  Even with that and doing things like 
> changing TX frequency up and down the waterfall I was “Not In The Log” 
> this time. ☹  Steve W5KI not only saw KL7NC, but also printed KL7HBK.  
> I never saw KL7HBK even though I saw him on spotted on my bandmap.  I 
> have seen so many stations call CQ AK night after night and had to 
> wonder if they were ALL calling them as well?  The KL7 stations on 
> tonight didn’t seem to work many folks, but the big guns sure got 
> them!  During that time DXmaps had a 50 MHz block over KL7NC and I 
> also had one!  Speaking of which, for the last two days I have seen a 
> few of the red blocks as well.  You guys on 2m and higher know about 
> those.
>
> Even though I missed getting KL7 in my log this time, it was a great 
> night overall.  Good comradery among many 6m aficionados/friends.  Now 
> it is 0400 UTC and I am still working new grids!  I am not really a 
> grid chaser, but more fun to be had on the 6m band!  I thought this 
> year’s E season blew by me since I missed the May openings, but 6m 
> continues to thrill in the month of July!  I thought 6m was supposed 
> to calm down after the 4^th of July, LOL.
>
> Did you guys down in Central AR see the 6m action tonight?  I hope you 
> had as much fun as we did on the Western Front!  Forgive the typos, I 
> am still pretty pumped up over the above!  73 de w5jay/jay..
>
>
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