[Meteor-Scatter] PA0JMV Quadrantids log

[Joop Mutter]

PA0JMV in JO21PM
Hi Friends,

HNY 2004 to all of you and hope all wishes come true..!
I was QRV for several hours and was checking performance of 3 different RX
+2 PC's (parallel on 28MHz via same transverter).
Monitoring 144.200+/- and 144.100 was no fun, almost NIL except for a few
die-hards :-), so after 1.5 day I tuned all 3 RX to the digital part of the
band, hoping to work at least the only new square for me that was promised
to be active, RK1B/1.
Running my single 1x12 ele 2.5WL yagi at 11m agnd, 2.5m above the roof, so
really nothing special, and 400W plus home made old (1988) preamp 3SK124.
(My EME array is no good for MS, too low).

ALL QSO's were FSK441 random, answering CQ or after my own CQ.
Most QSO's were really quick, 12 were 4 minutes or even less!!
times given are end of QSO, UTC

02 JAN
0831    ES6RQ    KO29WA    1500km
0851    HA200EU    JN96JO    1123km
1402    OH1JCS    KP10AE    1417km
1411    SM5CUI    JO89MW    1189km (reports "HNY-HNY" only:-)
1436    SM0EPO    JO89XM    1193km
03 JAN
1236    OH6KTL    KP02OJ    1541km
1330    SM3JBO    JP93IH    1534km (after his FIRST EVER MS-CQ!)
1435    RX1AS    KO59FX    1822km
2046    RK1B/1    KO69DI    1900km YESS, his and my ODX, GRID#785
2123    UR5TW    KN39MK    1553km
04 JAN
0010    T98GTH    JN84UU    1179km (big pileup.....)
0050    RA3LE    KO64AR    1813km
0108    GM4ODA/P    IO66VH    925km
0809    EA3DXU    JN11CM    1136km
0852    OH6ZZ    KP12BO    1592km
1132    OH1JCS    KP10AE    1417km
1155    OH6HJG    KP13RX    1746km
1228    OH6MRD    KP12EP    1604km
05 JAN
1939    OH2NY    KP20CM    1537km

It was a nice shower and BIG FUN for me, MANY THANKS to ALL of you and
special thanks to those friends who made DXpeditions in such a cold part of
the year !!!! (Janne OH5LID/RK1B : you and your mates MUST still be
frozen......)
I do hope that the OH8K/OH9O team will be able to make another success of
their trip to KP17, but I am afraid it will be just too late... we will
see...

more details of my station on the homepage:
www.planet.nl/~pa0jmv or www.qsl.net/pa0jmv

73, Joop JO21PM