[MIham] MI Contacts With Japan, China, India etc.?

Sat Oct 25 20:12:40 EDT 2008

Thank you very much Hank.    

The problem "we" totally blind, legally blind and print handicapped individuals have is due to the inefficient, error riddled and more slopily written program code then Hogs at the slop trough, is due to just that! Every X/Y coordinate, and sometimes Z too, must be plotted pixil by pixil and binary '1' and '0' by bit. Enabling any software program to be able to read back the text at a given screen position on command requires a huge amount of programming work.    

For instance. It took programmers 'five' years before they were able to create an interface able to work between the GUI and early Windows + MS DOS code. Hence, the blind had to wait five years just to get started, so we are now even farther behind then our sighted compatriots.    

The more graphics, the lower the probability that the blind can use a computer with a synthetic speech interface to read them the CRT contents becomes.     

Hence, all the 'could be' helpful DX sites are nearly useless to the blind.    

There were several excellent DOS based programs that did a terrific job of helping the blind user compute and execute antenna headings a few short years ago. Most are still out there, somewhere in 'I Wonder Where Land', but most OS will no longer execute them using the XT HE or Pro command prompt.    

I sure wish there was a program, or hardware with a computer software interface, available to alert and describe a DX cluster. If one exists, I have not found it.    

All I really want to be able to do is obtain both the short path and long path headings for a given area. Such as for a smaller country a dead center X/Y heading or for larger countries an mean average X/Y heading that takes into account the various time zones transversed etc.    

I tried "desperately" on Sunday October 19th to work ET3SID in Ethiopia. I had him 5/9 a little south of due east from Flint, Michigan, but I also had a bit stronger signal, with less QSB, over the North Pole. It was like being stuck in the middle of fifty thousand screaming rock fans all charging the stage for an autograph! Total bedlem.    

Hence Hank, any more precise X/Y coordinates to possibly gain even a few Db would have been helpful! But I had no way to procure such headings. After forty-five minutes, I quit.    

I "think" that I got through, but in all the racket, I can not be sure. I did send an e-mail in the hopes of confirming the contact, but no reply yet. The guy is probably still recovering from the pile up migrain syndrome!    

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: hank k8dd 
  To: Duane Fischer, W8DBF 
  Cc: miham at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [MIham] MI Contacts With Japan, China, India etc.?

  On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:

    Hi All,

    I have had no luck whatsoever in even hearing a Ham in Japan, India, Singapore, Pakistan, China etc.

    This is over a ten year period of time.

    I have a Mosley TA-33 tri band at 55 feet, ground mounted Hustler vertical with radials for 20M, east/west oriented double bazooka 20M mono band  and can run the legal limit. Now I am in the Flint area, Genesee county area of southeastern lower Michigan. I do not have problems working other parts of the planet, but when it come sto these areas, my score is zero!

    Are any of you guys in Michigan currently, or in the past, able to work these countries?

    Any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong? Other then listening when they are sleeping!

    Thanks.

    Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO

  To find the times to listen on a particular band for those locations you could connect to a DX Cluster and search on the countries prefix.

  For example, if you go to http://www.nc7j.com/    and do an "Advanced Search" on VU you will find a good time to listen on 20M CW:

        DX de N2TU: 14006.9 
       VU7SJ QSX 14008.39 VU7 
       10/24/2008 2002Z NC 
         DX de W1JR: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ Up 1.5 Not strong VU7 
       10/24/2008 1958Z NH 
         DX de W1EBI: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ QSX 14008.20 VU7 
       10/24/2008 1944Z MA 
         DX de K4TR: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ 
       VU7 
       10/24/2008 1943Z FL 
         DX de K3SWZ: 14006.9 
       VU7SJ UP 1 FEW CALLING VU7 
       10/24/2008 1943Z PA 
         DX de N4KG-7: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ 339 ALA wkd up1 better at 17Z VU7 
       10/24/2008 1934Z AL 
         DX de W5ZPA: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ worked up 1KC VU7 
       10/24/2008 1912Z LA 
         DX de NN3W: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ up 1 VU7 
       10/24/2008 1839Z VA 
         DX de K3CB: 14006.9 
       VU7SJ QSX 14008.00 VU7 
       10/24/2008 1837Z MD 
         DX de KR4E: 14006.9 
       VU7SJ 599in usa fla tnx 73 VU7 
       10/24/2008 1830Z FL 
         DX de W4QN: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ 
       VU7 
       10/24/2008 1827Z FL 
         DX de K2PLF: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ UP 1 LOOKING FOR NA EASY VU7 
       10/24/2008 1824Z MD 
         DX de VE7NH: 14017.4 
       VU7SJ WEAK AS WATER HERE VU7 
       10/24/2008 1815Z BC 
         DX de AB5YI: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ 
       VU7 
       10/24/2008 1809Z LA 
         DX de N3II: 14007.0 
       VU7SJ he's back xcv? VU7 
       10/24/2008 1806Z MD 

  Or you could go to http://ve9dx.weblink.nbtel.net/telnet/sites.html and select one of the DX Cluster nodes and get help on   SHOW/DX   and search on the countries prefix you are interested in.

  I have worked quite a few Japan, some China, India and Singapore.  For Pakistan you might want to follow the DX Bulletins to see when someone is operating there - it is fairly rare and I'm not sure that I have heard one of them in quite awhile.

  Generally JA, BY and that area are open on 20 in the morning.  On 15 you might hear them around sunset.  A program like Hamcap - www.dxatlas.com/HamCap/ - is a very good tool for watching propagation and times for gray line DXing.

  This morning, about 7AM local time I worked the DXpedition on Willis Island off the coast of Australia on 80 CW.  They were a good 569 to 579 here between Imlay City and Lapeer.  Have not heard them on the higher frequencies because at the moment my yagi is on the ground waiting to go back up!

  Hope this helps.

  73    Hank    K8DD

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  'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their 
  level then beat you with experience.'      -anon
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