[ADXA] More on 9N7AA

[jayw5jay]

Hi John it may seem that way but we do sleep. However I am not a morning person at all. But being on call for many years 24/7 including during holidays and vacations I guess I've learned how to get up when I need to.  :-)73 jay Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: John Exum <jlexum at gmail.com> Date: 3/2/22  4:53 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> Cc: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [ADXA] More on 9N7AA I am starting to believe that there are a number of ADXA members that simply do not sleep!  Well, a little less sleep might help me get the DXCC a bit quicker.On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 4:44 PM Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:Hi ADXA,So today I got up a little earlier and was nicely rewarded to get 9N7AA on 30m.  A new band for me.  He even provided LOTW confirmation!  Nice!!  Confirmed on 4 bands now, but now needing CW to get that mode filled.   Anyway he had a great signal on 30m.  He complains about his noise floor being super high and explains how best to work him.  He does have a definite pattern to his operation, every day the same thing starting on 30m around 1200 UTC.  Then drops to 17m about an hour later.  So on and so forth.   BTW, I find all this long path vs. short path interesting!  Especially when it changes the other way for some just over a few hundred miles to the east of here.  As you guys may or may not know I don’t have a directional antenna on 30m or even a good dipole/vertical that is resonate on that band.  So this morning I just loaded into the 80m/40m fan dipole.  I know this is a dumb thing to do, but when I saw/heard him I wanted that QSO.  Even a squirrel get a nut from time to time, but my luck ran out as I was waiting on him on 12m to show up.  Sure enough he was there at the right time and was even louder than on 30m. I wasn’t the only one waiting on him.  He only worked a few stations and was gone.  During that whole time I did try again short path on 12m on the beam and again it was all long path for him.  I just couldn’t believe I couldn’t get him and I did try all the tricks I knew to do.  So I was left to experiment on LP vs. SP to entertain me.   I wonder if this is a equinox thing where long path can sometimes work more?  I have never worked as much LP as I have in the last few days.   Sure has been a nice couple of days of DXing.  I love seeing those LOTW confirmations come across my DXLab sync.  Now if I could only find just “one” ATNO!  😊 73 jay/w5jay..  ______________________________________________________________
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