[MIham] Re Michigan Path To Japan?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Thank you Hank.

I am totally blind, now. I was blinded the eve of my eighteenth birthday in 
October of 1964 by a stranger who shot me instead of a Pheasant from sixty 
feet away.

Because of being totally blind, and using a software based screen reading 
program, many times I am not able to 'read' the screens on DX groups etc.

I noticed most of your contacts were done using CW, which I can do, but it 
tends to bother my hearing after a while. Hence, I prefer SSB when possible. 
Any success there? The days of AM DX are nearly gone! Fun to do though!




Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hank k8dd" <k8dd at arrl.net>
To: <miham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [MIham] Re Michigan Path To Japan?


> Last night, about 9:45 Local, 0245 UTC, I worked E51MMM on So. Cook
> Island at 355 degrees on 20 CW
> A couple of nights ago I worked VK6HD about 4:45 PM, or 2145 UTC long
> path on 80 CW.
> JA and BY have been spotted on the DX cluster between 2300 UTC and
> 0200 UTC on 20 meters.
> I haven't heard much in that direction on 15 meters.  The signals that
> way from the far east have been decent on 20 meters.
> I've also worked the Pacific on 30 meters with a dipole at 60 ft in
> the evenings - usually from 8 to 10 pm, or 0100 to 0300 UTC.
> You might try connecting to one of the DX packet clusters and listen
> to the spots.  On some of them you can filter the spots so that you
> only get spots from the SE Asia.  Or you can filter so that you only
> get spots from the midwest.  Lots of options!
>
> 73    Hank    K8DD
>
> On Nov 21, 2007 11:27 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I realize that we are just emerging from the depths of the sun spot sewer
>> cycle and propagation paths are a real puzzle. But I am wondering if any 
>> of
>> you in Michigan have had any success in working Japan and the South 
>> Pacific
>> as well as India, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Pakistan etc.?
>>
>> If so, would you please tell me the band, the aprox. frequency of the
>> activity and the time of day using UTC?
>>
>> Did you point the directional antenna directly at the country or use an 
>> over
>> the pole path?
>>
>> I have had absolutely zero success on fifteen and twenty meters so I 
>> would
>> really appreciate your suggestions of the best way to work the
>> aforementioned countries. Thank you very much for giving the old blind 
>> dude
>> a hand.
>>
>> Duane W8DBF
>>
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
>> dfischer at usol.com
>>
>> HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
>> http://www.w9wze.net
>>
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>> hhrp.w9wze.net
>>
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