[OKDXA] Anyone else miss FT5XO

[Jerry Chouinard]

John:

Worked them only on 40 CW one evening?  Pretty sure I heard him send my 
call through the noise with his S5 signal among a handful of jerks sending 
the call signs of stations calling the FT5 and throwing in a 5NN.  I 
believe I just made it in time because minutes later the jerks and the 
frequency police got into a sending "%*$&^" match on top of the FT5.  He 
made a sleuth move a few khz down and other lucky stations discovered him 
for a few Qs before the circus and the police packed up their tents and 
moved on top of him again.  Not a pleasurable way to  work a rare one. I 
thought that kind of chaos was more prevalent on SSB but have begun to 
realize there are many screwballs that know how to send CW and have the 
same mental deficiency as the jerks on 20 and elsewhere with microphones.

The FT5 didn't stick around too long the times I heard them on 40 
CW.  Gosh, I wonder why?

Sorry you didn't work 'em but from my vantage point conditions could 
certainly have been better and when they were in ear shot for us it would 
have been nice to bag 'em without having to hear the three ring circus - on 
40 CW no less.

73 - Jerry K5YAA

At 08:04 PM 3/30/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>I feel like I am the only one who didn't work them.
>Maybe someday they'll be another DXpedition there.
>
>73s John NE0P
>
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