[OKDXA] Anyone else miss FT5XO

[John Geiger]

Hi Jerry,

Congrats on working them!  Conditions from W5 seems
iffy at best.  It was kind of discouraging to look at
the cluster and see people in 9 and 4 land say they
were S8 or so, and have them right at the noise level
here.  I never have luck with this microlite team-I
missed them from South Sandwich also.  Of course I
worked them 3 times when they were on South Georgia
since I didn't need that one.

Wish the D68C/3B9C would have gone there instead.

73s John NE0P

--- Jerry Chouinard <k5yaa at okdxa.org> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >John Geiger
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> University
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