[Elecraft] T32C Kirimitati Island Dxpedition

[Dave Sergeant]

It is good that you chaps in the USA are having a whale of a time 
working T32C (and it is just a stone's throw from VK land...). But it 
is a different kettle of fish from northern Europe where the path 
passes straight through the auroral circle (both short and long path). 
I have been trying very hard in the past few days to even hear them and 
apart from a brief showing just above noise on Saturday I have heard 
absolutely zilch.

The chaps with beams have been working them, all bands, but I have no 
information about anybody with low wire antennas doing so yet. 
Yesterday evening I heard they were on 10m CW and listened - not a 
trace of them, but I did QSO VE7SV at good signals. Similarly 
everywhere else I have listened, not just weak but simply not there. 
QRP or not, I am obviously not going to work them if I cannot hear 
them.

Hoping things improve in the next couple of weeks, and maybe the 
auroral circle will decrease in size, and I will have a QSO. But things 
certainly don't look good at the moment.

73 Dave G3YMC
233 QRP countries on K2 #2498

On 5 Oct 2011 at 7:22, Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF wrote:

> Try long path on 10 & 20M David,
> It's been working pretty well from the pacific to the UK / northern
> europe.
> 
> 73 de
> Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF


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