[OKDXA] Anyone else miss FT5XO

Sun Apr 3 12:53:38 EDT 2005

I think mainly because a lot of people need it.  The last time I got them 
without an amp on the first night and my DXing career was born after being a 
ham for 20 years.  But there were many trying to get them on 75m and 160m. 
No go for them at that time and that's what stuck in my mind.  I think Peter 
I is around 7200 miles and the FT5 was around 11k miles.  So in theory the 
FT5 should have been harder with many more path hoops/attenuation.

73 de jay..
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <johngeig at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Anyone else miss FT5XO

> Will Peter I be a tough path?  I figured it would be
> one of the better paths we have since it is about due
> south of us-that TE stuff and all.  After all, many
> times I will hear SA on 10 meters when the band isn't
> open elsewhere.
>
> Or will it be tough because so many people need it?
>
> 73s John NE0P
> Lawton, OK
>
>
> --- Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:
>> I feel so lucky after reading the same thing on
>> other reflectors.  I got
>> them on RTTY and SSB.  Both times when activity was
>> low and one time when
>> they were begging for contacts SSB!  I was gong to
>> gun them down on CW, but
>> they quit after I got the amp on line that night.
>> Like Peter 1 the path is
>> very tough and always will be.  I really thought
>> this would be one of those
>> expeditions I would get in the log because of my
>> work schedule and felt
>> lucky to work them at all.  Over here in Fort Smith
>> there were a few needing
>> them on RTTY.  Last Saturday night I was working on
>> a new computer and had
>> everything in disarray.  I could here them on 20m
>> RTTY.  So I hooked up the
>> old computer because the new one has no com ports
>> for the Rig Blaster.  Not
>> sure why but two hours later I still wasn't getting
>> audio into the computer
>> for a print.  Multiple problems, but finally I found
>> a plug not all the way
>> in and also the wrong input was selected on the
>> computer.  After I got it
>> all going again, two calls later and I was in the
>> log.  How lucky is that!
>> The FT5 expedition is one of those you are just
>> lucky to get them period. I
>> missed the VU4 and I was looking for them hard.  I
>> do love the expeditions
>> that have the log on the web you can check every
>> couple of days and you get
>> them on all modes and bands, hihi.
>>
>> 73 de jay..
>>
>>
>> > Hi John and all,
>> >
>> > Here in Stillwater, they were often not even
>> stealth, even though others
>> > in 5 land and 0 land were working them.   A couple
>> of exceptions were a
>> > morning LP run on 20 SSB and a pretty good 40 SSB
>> run.  I think we got
>> > them on 17 CW, 20 CW and SSB, 30 CW, and 40 CW and
>> SSB.  We'll see.
>> >
>> > The only time I heard them very well on RTTY, they
>> were working JA's.
>> > Maybe next time if I live that long.  It has been
>> 35 years since I last
>> > worked FT5X.
>> >
>> > 73, Ken K5KC
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "John Geiger" <johngeig at yahoo.com>
>> > To: <dx-list at yahoogroups.com>;
>> <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:04 PM
>> > Subject: [OKDXA] Anyone else miss FT5XO
>> >
>> >
>> >>I feel like I am the only one who didn't work
>> them.
>> >> Maybe someday they'll be another DXpedition
>> there.
>> >>
>> >> 73s John NE0P
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> John Geiger
>> >> Associate Professor of Psychology, Cameron
>> University
>> >>
>> >> Ham Call NE0P, active 160m-70cm
>> >>
>> >> Radios: Kenwood TS2000 (HF/6/2/70cm), Kenwood
>> TS60 (6M base and mobile
>> >> work), Yaesu VX7R 6m/2m/222mhz/70cm)
>> >>
>> >> Antennas: 2 element Mini Quad, Cushcraft A14810S,
>> Cushcraft 719B Homebrew
>> >> G5RV
>> >>
>> >> 3 VUCCs on 50mhz: from EN41, EN51, EM04, #1014,
>> #1015, #1290
>> >> 2 meter VUCC #615
>> >> Satellite VUCC #129
>> >> County Hunters award (500): #3301, all 6 meters
>> >>
>> >>
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