[Elecraft] VP6DX scraping the bottom

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Mike,

If of any interest to you VP6DX was peaking here on 40m short path around 
08:20Z (CW contact at 08:14Z  and SSB at 08:51Z), and strong on 15m short 
path for a good hour during our afternoon (CW contact at 16:48Z before SSB 
contact at 16:37Z). Have heard them on 40m long path during the afternoon 
after working them, but the EU QRM was rough! I have not tried the other 
bands. Glad to have got my shack moved just in time :-)

Good luck!

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD


Mike Willis  <m.j.willis at rl.ac.uk> wrote on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 
1:18 PM

> I tried, for an hour. There was simply no chance against all the stronger, 
> mainly Southern Europeans trying for their 3rd or 4th band contact. When 
> they did come up a bit stronger and some of the Eastern EU faded, they 
> went off to 7.29MHz to work the USA. All this was SSB.  CW was not an 
> option for me as unfortunately, VP6DX never seemed to slow down in their 
> CW for those of us limited in ability to around 15WPM. I can see why as 
> they make more contacts that way, but the speed they were going it was 
> nearly impossible for me to tell what was going on, when to call etc.
>
> Mike