[ADXA] Excellent Weekend of Radio

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Sounds like a great weekend on the radio, Scott !!!!!!!

I heard there was also an operation from the USS Razorback, which is 
docked in North Little Rock on the Arkansas River, but did not hear them 
on anywhere.

ZN

On 2021-06-07 06:58, sbranyan at cox.net wrote:

> I really enjoyed this weekend on the air.
> 
> For Battleships and D-Day Commemoration, I worked:
> 
> - N6MSO USS Lucid 20m CW
> 
> - NE1PL USS Massachusetts 20m SSB
> 
> - N1S USS Nautilus 20 FT4
> 
> - K4DSR USS Alabama 40m CW
> 
> and
> 
> - W2W D-Day Commemoration National Electronics Museum MD (20m FT4 5w)
> 
> ATNOs VK8 and JY
> 
> I lacked one callsign zone for the mainland of Australia, and I'd been 
> after a VK8 station for a long time (Darwin Northern Territory in the 
> Australian Outback). Finally, got to work Stuie (VK8NSB) on FT8 15m 
> Friday night. He also has the VK100AF (Australian Air Force 10th 
> Anniversary SES) which I also worked with an hour of his other station, 
> also on 15m FT8.
> 
> Sunday night the ME (Mid-east) came alive,  and I spent almost an hour 
> chasing ATNO JY5IB on 20m FT8. We finally got a QSO. In the middle of 
> it I thought I had lost him when a Russian station called me and 
> somehow threw my reply exchange off, causing me to send my initial call 
> again to JY. JY stuck with me though as I got back on track with a 
> signal report to him and we finished. He confirmed within an hour or 
> so.
> 
> I also heard Bahrain with a stronger signal which I tried to work but 
> did not get.
> 
> QRP
> 
> Also tried to work OD (Lebanon) and 4Z (Israel) on 5w. But could not 
> get a QSO with them, even though they had strong signals.
> 
> However, I did get OE (Austria), YS (El Salvador), GI (N. Ireland), and 
> France, as well as Lanny (K1LEC) in Searcy, all on 5w, hi!
> 
> Hope others had some good radio time this weekend too.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Scott/W5AAJ
> 
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