[ADXA] DX In Its Own Way

[Dennis Schaefer]

Congratulations on Hawaii on 432!  Maybe there is enough activity on 432 to
complete the rest of them.  I guess its mainly EME for the distant ones,
though.  Tropo can be good and I've worked FL several times but I don't
think that helps for the western states.  Maybe the rover guy can fill in
some, though.

I'm glad you're on EME.  Arkansas was scarce for a long time on 2 and 432.
I got a lot of requests and lashed up something Field Day style to give
someone one of their last states.   The last one on 2 meters was K6PF.  Bob
was moving from CA to AZ and had everything but Arkansas.  He was pushing
his move back so he could work the last one.  I ran with him every day for
about a month and copied every sequence from him.  He had an extremely bad
noise source, and one morning it rained and it went away for a bit.  He
called me and we ran and completed the contact quickly.

Then I started working 432 a little and gave HB9Q a needed state, as well
as a few others.  Got an article in QST during NPOTA when George and I
activated a park on 432 EME.  I worked DL7APV with 50 watts to 2 elements,
and had previously worked him with 5 watts at the feedpoint with the two
Cushcraft 19 el yagis.  There just wasn't enough activity on 432 at the
time to continue without significant upgrading.  I worked the same big
stations every contest.

I haven't gotten a request for several years, so thanks for fulfilling all
those wishes for Arkansas, and I hope you can finish up the 432 WAS.  Also,
good luck with the VU4N on 160.  If anybody can do it, you can.  I think he
has noise problems but maybe you can break through if he gets to operate
enough on 160.

73,
Dennis/RZ

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 7:12 PM <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not “DX” as we know it here with ADXA but tonight was a special, early,
> Christmas present.
>
>
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> After I completed WAS on 222 MHz two years ago I began to focus on
> completing 432 MHz WAS. I was on 432 EME back in the early ‘90s and when I
> stopped I had worked everyone on the band at the time and had 36 states in
> the log either on tropo or EME. I fired back up on 432 EME a couple of
> months ago with a mission to complete WAS on that band. I had already
> worked KL7HFQ in Alaska back in the 90’s but the difficult one now would be
> KH6 in Hawaii. Tom, NH6Y, who I worked on 222 for my 50th state is now on
> 432 EME with 2xFO25 antennas and 500 watts. We ran tonight and after about
> 45 minutes finally completed for state # 42 !!!!
>
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>
> Time to celebrate, but just for a short while as I’m on VU4 160 meter
> watch !!!!!!
>
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>
> 73 Joel W5ZN
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