[Elecraft] OT (sort of, but they use all Elecraft gear): Baker Island

[Wes Stewart]

 From AZ working to the west on 160 is best at our sunrise.  Propagation, hence 
noise, to the east is gone and we observe an often spectacular peak. I made a 
marginal KH1 QSO on 8/27 @ 1134.  A few minutes later they were very Q5 and hung 
in there for a good 20 minutes past my sunrise.

I was surprised to hear and work them, for a "no-question-about-it" contact, 
last night @0618Z, which is their sunrise.  I had solid S8 noise, but they were 
S9 + a little.

I now have them on 9 slots, but I'll trade them all for one Mt. Athos, who has 
been Q4 here exactly once in my 60 years of hamming.

Wes  N7WS

On 6/28/2018 1:40 PM, ab2tc wrote:
> Hi Andy and all,
>
> Good for you, congratulations on nailing them on 160m. It looks like even on
> 20m they are at their best between midnight and 4am EDT. I have resigned
> myself to some sleepless nights in order to nail them. For me it's an ATNO.
> The propagation forecast site linked to on their web site correctly
> predicted this, but I couldn't quite believe it until I saw the evidence on
> the spotting cluster this morning. I have worked many of the nearby South
> Pacific islands in the past but never in the middle of the night.
>
> AB2TC - Knut
>
>
> Elecraft mailing list wrote
>> For one data point, when I got up for other reasons this morning at 2:20
>> a.m., I turned on the radio, as I need KH1 on 160.  They were very solid
>> copy on 1822.5, and easy to work, using my K3 and KPA500, with only an
>> inverted vee for TX and RX.  I was surprised that they were solid copy, as
>> that's not usually my experience on 160.
>> 73, andy ae6y