Well the Russellville Mafia also worked him on 40m during the gray line event for him after OUR midnight hour.  I was seeing just an occasional stripe, then it became almost every cycle - 2 compound streams (4 calls).  First it was John (BHS), of course, then I got my shot a few minutes later and Charles (K5CS) followed.  Then our DX buddy Lanny (K1LEC), from Joel's neck of the woods (Searcy), got him. 

For us that was at least the 2nd contact.  We are all in his online ClubLog logbook, so when he gets home and sets up OQRS on Clublog, we can order cards and LoTW.   Or just wait for 6 months for his free LoTW upload.  I tend to donate to the DXP (especially ATNO's like this) to get the nice cards and upload them before something happens to his log (or him) and I lose it all together. 

Also Saturday morning, I got another new Grid Square on my FFMA quest.  After he uploads  when he gets home, it'll only need 16 more for the magic number of 488.  Yesterday, we tried FT8, Q65, MSK144 and back to FT8 which turned out to be the successful mode for our distance and conditions.  The 6m band is just starting to come alive, hopefully better than last year, which was a real bummer.  2 years ago, I knocked out about 50 new GS in just a few months. 

73's

George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105

Cell - 479.857.7737

On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM Michael Nettles <kb5wbh@gmail.com> wrote:

Finally worked him on 40m late last night!! So happy I took some pics!! Lol.
It can happen with a wire and no amp.
73
Mike kb5wbh

On Sat, May 10, 2025, 10:29 PM Charles McKenzie <kf5tl@outlook.com> wrote:

Something KI5QQG pointed out to me, she became aware of this while we were following each other working a station, note the tx freq, as soon as the lead gets a 73 the following station starts tx in the open hole…. So watch a bit to see someone kinda close gets their 73, note their freq. and follow in that hole, they were heard, now gone, elbow in, it helps! This PM KI5QOS tried about 30 tries to get a 73, KI5QQH followed and only took abt 15 in the same hole!!!

Hope this helps, providing band conditions don’t change!?

KF5TL 

Sent from my iPhone

On May 10, 2025, at 10:13 PM, ryan@n5qz.org wrote:



I can hear him most of the time, but cannot get through.

N5QZ

 

 

From: adxa-bounces@mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Steven Rutledge
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2025 10:07 PM
To: adxa@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ADXA] Marion Is. on 7.080 F/H

 

Loud here.  Can't work him for the life of me.

 

Steve, N4JQQ

 

On 5/10/2025 9:20 PM, Lanny Aldrich wrote:

Charles, George, John and I are all compound copying ZS8W on two streams.

73, Lanny  K1LEC

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