Oh I had sent too fast. Enjoy the DXCC ride.  It is all about having fun John. You'll get there in due time.

73 de jay



Sent from my Galaxy


-------- Original message --------
From: John Exum <[email protected]>
Date: 3/2/22 4:53 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: Jay Bromley <[email protected]>
Cc: ADXA <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> 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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