[Meteor-Scatter] Results of KP03 expedition by OH6AW

[Juha Rantanen]

Hello all

Seems like beer and email aren't too good combination anyway. At least one
more correction for the expedition report, DJ9MS mentioned below should of
course be Toralf DJ8MS.

73 agn de Juha OH6XX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Juha Rantanen" <oh6xx@sral.fi>
To: "Meteor-scatter mailinglist" <Meteor-Scatter@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:43 PM
Subject: [Meteor-Scatter] Results of KP03 expedition by OH6AW


> Hello all,
>
> Thank you all who called us on our IOTA pedition to EU101. The main
interest
> on this pedition was on HF work so the VHF was operated on the side of HF.
> We put up 15 element DL6WU type beam about 5 meters high, FT847 rig, 600
> watt amplifier and around 20 meters of Aircom in between. The amplifier
has
> a built in 0,3db NF preamp in it. We used MSDSP to TX and RX the MS CW.
All
> the signals that came in were unbeliavably strong for a guy that has used
to
> a close to noise level signals (me!). We worked the following stations, I
> didn't count pings and bursts:
>
> DATE                   UTC              Call       Sent  Rcvd
> 9-JUN-2002    05:19-05:28    DL1RTL    27    R27
> 9-JUN-2002    05:39-05:49    DJ9CZ       27    R27
> 9-JUN-2002    05:54-06:08    OK1DIG   38    R38
> 9-JUN-2002    07:34-07:44    DJ9MS      27    R26
> 10-JUN-2002  18:00-18:35    DL3BUE    27    R27
> 10-JUN-2002  19:35-19:44    DD3SP      27     26
> 10-JUN-2002  20:08-20:13    DL5WG    R27   37
> 10-JUN-2002  20:43-20:53    DF8IK      38     R27
> 11-JUN-2002  03:00-03:49    G4HGI      26     R26
> 11-JUN-2002  06:48-07:03    DL9AN     37     R27
> 11-JUN-2002  07:33-07:43    DK3BU     39     R39
>
> All the above QSO's were random except DL3BUE and G4HGI. Also had a sked
> with IZ4AIK but except the fact that I received his report and sent mine
we
> never completed. After DK3BU I wrote to my paper log "Huge, almost all the
> time". He was very loud indeed and very easy to work as all the others
too.
> This pedition might give me a wrong impression of the signal levels on the
> OH west coast but anyway I had fun. I wish I had had more time for MS as
> many of you who sent me emails before pedition were still left without QSO
> to KP03. I have .WAV files of all the QSO's I made and if some of you who
> worked us wants his piece please email me I will send them to you. For the
> rest of you maybe DK3XT can publish some of them on his site. Bernd please
> email me me if that is possible.
>
> 73 es GL de Juha OH6XX op of OH6AW
>
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