[MIham] Re Michigan Path To Japan?

[hank k8dd]

I don't operate much SSB - Mostly CW.  But I do see the DX spots for SSB
on the DX clusters.   I think I have somewhere over 200 countries on Phone,
but I don't keep track of them like I do with CW and Mixed D X C C .    I would
believe that the propagation for SSB would be the same as for CW.  Generally
17 through 10 meters would open to JA in the late afternoon to early evening
and on 20 meters it would open in the morning, just after dawn.

The only screen reader I am familiar with is Read Please which won't read the
scrolling lines.  When I was working I saw a program called JAWS that was used
as Social Security Administration, but I don't know if it can handle
the scrolling.
I also visited a ham in Oak Ridge Tennessee last month who has no sight.  He
uses some kind of a hardware board in the PC that he uses for logging that
speaks every letter that he types and everything he receives - that was really
neat.

I helped my cousin in Wisconsin who has macular degeneration set up Read
Please and he is quite happy with it.  If I run across anything that
will work with
the DX clusters, I'll let you know.

73    Hank    K8DD



On Nov 22, 2007 12:34 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >> HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
> >> hhrp.w9wze.net
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