[OKDXA] DX {Scanned}

[k5tt]

I forgot to mention that people were working CN2R.  He had a pretty good sig
here too.  Congrats on the new one.  It seems that once the QRN goes down,
160 will be pretty good.

Beating the east coast guys is almost as good as beating Texas.

Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N5PA" <n5pa at comcast.net>
To: <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: [OKDXA] DX {Scanned}


> Jim:
>
>
>
> I did pick up one new country on 160 last night, CN2R, on 160 phone.  I
was
> using my 80 meter Inverted-V through the tuner and I beat the pileup.  It
> was simply amazing!  I beat out all the east coast guys using an 80 meter
> antenna.  I had a pretty good weekend and I picked up 3 new CW countries,
2
> new RTTY countries, and 20 new band countries.  I picked up Australia for
a
> new one on 75 meters early Friday morning.  W5YU was talking to them
> non-stop and finally people started calling on top of him and he got the
> message.  They were much stronger here when he was struggling to pull them
> out.  When he finally QRT'd they were much weaker here.  The Gray-Line had
> just about disappeared because the sun was up.   I listened to all the
lids
> try to work TX9 on 40 a little before 1100 UTC this morning and they
> continually called on top of him even though he was signing "UP".  He was
> weak on 30 and was mainly working JA's.  When he QSY'd to 160 from 40 the
> noise level here was 20 to 30 over S9 so there was no hope of hearing
them.
> I have a new Spi-Ro antenna to put up on 160 but I have been holding off
> until I get my 40 meter beam up.  I might have to put it up temporarily.
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Alan, N5PA
>
>
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