[ADXA] Check out W5RZ on pskreporter!!!

[Steven Rutledge]

Mike, great work.  That is amazing to me.  I'm totally unfamiliar with 
160.  I tried a vertical on my city lot but I couldn't hear anyone.

Steve, N4JQQ

On 1/28/2025 5:54 PM, Michael Nettles wrote:
>
> Dennis, only 100w here and I've worked 48 Countries so far using 
> Inverted L antennas. Ya gotta get in there. Some are easy and some are 
> harder to get.
> 73
> Mike kb5wbh
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 9:32 AM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     Thanks, Randy.  The results were pretty amazing.  Whatever anyone
>     thinks of FT8, that mode plus tools like PSKReporter are excellent
>     for evaluating things.
>
>     The pennant is among trees, but I thought I had a clear spot.  As
>     I pulled out the pointy end, small branches kept grabbing, and it
>     ended up like a rough looking right triangle instead of a
>     pennant.  I tried to put the null where I thought the main noise
>     source was (South), and it appears to work.
>
>      Two JA’s were copied this morning.  Last night, most of Europe
>     plus Kuwait came in.  34 countries in all since last night.
>
>     Now to see if I can work anything with just 100 watts!
>
>     I think it will also work very well on 80, so I’m going to try to
>     get from 96 to 100 on that band.
>
>     Randy helped a lot with this project, and I appreciate it.
>
>     73,
>     Dennis/RZ
>
>     On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM Randell Curtis, W5ZJ via ADXA
>     <adxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>         Thanks to Dennis, W5RZ for getting his pennant antenna up
>         yesterday and reporting to pskreporter last night. I was
>         excited when one of his first DX receptions was 9K2HM in Kuwait.
>
>         Check out what he received by plugging his call sign into
>         pskreporter and setting the options to received on 160 for the
>         past 24 hours. We both  had a pretty good evening of
>         receiving. While not as good as the larger receiving arrays,
>         it does make a tremendous difference if you have noise issues.
>         It will also work on 40 and 80. I used it on 40 a couple days
>         ago to work Mt Athos on 40 early in the evening when my noise
>         was high.
>
>         While checking my DXCC totals on 160, which is only 38
>         confirmed, I noticed that one of those was HI. I had worked
>         the same station in HI twice over the last couple years, but
>         he only confirmed QRZ. Apparently at some point he uploaded
>         his log to LOTW. I was happy to see this because it finally
>         finished WAS from 6-160 (no 60 meters).
>
>         I am going to celebrate with Dennis and his overnight success
>         by have a cup of strong black coffee.
>
>         Have a great day and Good DXing
>         Randy/W5ZJ
>
>
>
>
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