[OKDXA] FT5ZM

[W5LE]

Kim,
One of the reasons they seem to come in from just about any direction is 
because we're very nearly at the exact opposite side of the globe, which 
renders the terms long path and short path practically meaningless for 
Okies.
I've spun down and listened a few times to 20M and 17M CW and observed 
that all the bottom-feeders (lids, tuners, etc) have come up to feed.  
It's undoubtedly going to be pure chaos just about everywhere they show 
up ,especially for the first 4 or 5 days.
Hang in there!
73, Gene


On 1/26/2014 2:45 PM, Kim Elmore wrote:
> What a frustrating morning! I can hear FT5ZM pretty well here, much 
> better that I would have guessed. In fact, they're stronger now on 20 
> than they were earlier though the path is very skewed -- they peak for 
> me around 30 deg or so and their signal seems to come from just about 
> everywhere. My biggest frustration is that I can't find the stations 
> they're working. The pile-up exceeds 20 kHz in width and is so chaotic 
> that I can never find the station being worked, so I don't know where 
> they're listening.
>
> I'll happily take any sage advice anyone has to offer!
>
> 73,
>
> Kim N5OP
>
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