[ADXA] VK9CE QRT

[sbranyan at cox.net]

Thanks, San. I had given up on VK9 this morning. Looks like their last rounds were on 30m FT8. I think they did well with JA and EU though. They have been working 15m into JA (nighttime here). I listened to them a long time on 7.056 last evening. They had a lot of QRM in the US, much of which seemed intentional--other digital modes crowding them out while many hams were trying to make contact with them. Pretty discouraging. 

I think they are some young bucks who were on a learning expedition, and they will be back better prepared next time. 

Still hope to catch A2 on some more bands or modes before they wrap things up this weekend. 

Meanwhile, I've made some good contacts the past several days. I've started chasing Argentine states and made some new ones. Got my first JA QSL card back and chasing paper for a basic all-district award there (The returning ham needed my card to finish a CQ US Counties 1000 award. So that was really cool.). Picked up PJ7AA on 4 bands, and made a CW contact with CN8 yesterday on 15m (my fifth CW DX, hihi). 

Hope we see some more DXpeditions soon!

73,
Scott/W5AAJ


-----Original Message-----
From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Sandy Hutson
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:26 AM
To: adxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ADXA] VK9CE QRT

The Cocos Island group is now QRT according to their brief QRZ.com site. They say 10,000 QSOs made but doubtful they went from 5500 2 days ago after 5 days and then made 4500 Qs in last  two days alone. Hmmm

Anyway, hope some of our members got a “new one”. Likely only got ‘em on FT8 if in midsouth part of USA. 

A25 Botswana is having electricity problems and much delays in getting on the air. GL.

San

 

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