[DX] anyone else NOT hearing VP8THU??

[Gil GAUTIER F5NOD]

Some VP8THU records on :
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Have Fun..
73 GIL F5NOD
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly Jones <kjones@sullivan1.com>
To: John Geiger <johngeig@yahoo.com>
Cc: <Dx@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [DX] anyone else NOT hearing VP8THU??


> Hi John,
>
> I'm not sure where you are located (call not in QRZ or Buck), but he's
> what I have experienced in Colorado.  I only have 3 elements at 40' for
> 10-20 and Butternut HF6V for 30-80.
>
> They seem to favor EU for much of the day.  I suspect just propagation or
> a "clearer" shot at EU.  Sometime around 20:00Z +/- the East Coast start
> to work them, usually on 17 and 20m.  After the East Coast has been
> working them for a couple of hours, then W6 and W7s start to work them.
> For whatever reason, the prop skips right over most of the Zero call area.
>
> I start to hear them on 17 & 20 around 22:00-23:00Z.  Not very loud, but
> can tell they are there.  Solid copy comes first on 20m around 01:00z.
> About the same time, they start to have decent copy on 30m and a little
> later on 40m.
>
> I did manage a 15m SSB Q with them last night, but the "solid copy" window
> was only about 15 minutes.  As fast as they peaked, they were gone.  20
> and 30 seem to stay open for quite some time.  They were still decent copy
> past 06:00z last night on 20, 30 and even 40.  I think that was even past
> their sunrise a bit.
>
> The biggest frustration for me was trying to break the EU "wall".  Spent
> nearly 3 hours on 40 and never did "break" it on 30 even though they were
> S7 for a good portion of the night.  Oh well, tonight is another shot.
> :-)
>
> Hope that gives you a little insight.
>
> 73
> Kelly - KE9KD
> http://www.dx-central.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, John Geiger wrote:
>
> > I was thrilled to hear that there was going to be an
> > operation from South Sandwich Islands, since that is
> > one that I still need.  There is only one problem-I
> > can't hear them.  I tune to the spots that I see on
> > the internet cluster-and NOTHING?  I don't think that
> > my antenna is that bad.  It is a Cushcraft MA5B-not a
> > monobander or anything, but it did work the Falkland
> > Is. Dxpedition ok last year.  I also worked VP8SGK on
> > South Georgia last year, and can hear LU1ZA on the
> > SOuth Orkneys, just can't find when they are taking
> > the list.
> >
> > SO what is going on with VP8THU?  THis should be a
> > fairly easy path from the central US.  I realize that
> > they are taking a more simplestic approach to this
> > DXpedition-but I am afraid that that means that only
> > big guns with stacked monobanders will work them.  Is
> > there some aspect of the dxpedition that I don't know
> > about?  Are they forced to run QRP, or dipoles, or is
> > there a big mountain between them and the US?
> >
> > This is really getting frustrating.  When and where
> > should I listen?
> >
> > 73s John KA0IFG
> >
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