[OKDXA] band conditions

[Roger Simpson]

-----Original Message----- 
From: W5LE
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 12:20 PM
To: Oklahoma - DX news and information
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] band conditions

I think 6 meters might even be a bust.  I just checked dxmaps.com and 50
MHz is blank!
Definitely grass mowing time.

On 5/13/2013 12:06 PM, K8JRM wrote:
> Strong Radio Black Out!  M-Class Flares expected! SFI=147,A=9 & K=3!
>
> Good day to cut the grass or to monitor 50 mHz?
>
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The bands are dead over here also.  I just saw a spot for Macedonia [Z33Z] 
on 15CW so I took a listen. He is less than S1 here and probably not 
workable.

I saw a spot for Iran yesterday so I thought I'd see if I could hear him. A 
bunch of guys on the east coast were calling him and a few worked him but I 
couldn't even hear him.

I set up a sked with a station in Iran about a year ago but when the time 
came we couldn't hear each other. Why is it that when a country I need comes 
on I can even hear him? HI HI. I guess IRAN is not that rare but I still 
have not worked it on any band or mode.

The guys that had to delay the trip to Heard Island should stage an interim 
DXpedition to IRAN.

Iran [EP], Myanmar [XY], PRK [P5], and Eritrea [E3] are the only countries 
that I need that have a permanent population and an existing infrastructure. 
The rest are islands: Bouvet, Kerguelen, Heard, Wake, Johnston, Amsterdam, 
Europa, Navassa, ect.

I also need Turkmenistan, which has a permanent population. I worked at 
station there a couple of years ago but the ARRL rejected it because of 
"unauthorized operation". I guess ham radio is illegal in Turkmenistan.

I don't have a keyer over here. I just use a straight key which is an old 
J-38.

73   Roger   K5RKS