[OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

[Roger Simpson]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gary McCrorey
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 1:14 AM
To: Bill Roberson ; Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

    Congratulations on working the FT5ZM.   Called him all afternoon on 20m
cw with no luck, lots of qrmers finally work them on 20m ssb at midnight
first call.  Hope it wasn't a pirate hi.  He was on 14.185 listening .191
not many callers.
    Good luck to everyone that needs them,  he is new one for me since
moving stateside.  Worked them in 1989 but wasn't stateside.
73 Gary  WQ5R


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Roberson" <w.roberson at sbcglobal.net>
To: <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 12:07 AM
Subject: [OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island


I worked FT5ZM early this morning on 20CW, but it was very chaotic and I
wasn't sure I got in his log, so I tried on 20CW tonight at nearly midnight
on 20CW and got a solid contact with just a few calls. They had not uploaded
their log to clublog tonight, so I really wasn't sure about the morning
contact. I really worked at 20CW this morning and the qrm and jammers were
fierce. Not so tonight. Also I banged away all day on 30 and 40m with no
success. I used 30 degrees, but as someone said, any direction is SP/LP.
Kind of like at the north pole, every direction is south. hi

Bill/N5AQ
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Bill , Gary

Congrats on working FT5ZM. I have NOT worked him so far.

I spent hours trying to work him on 20 CW. His signal was pretty good --  
better than I expected. However, the pileup was over ten Khz wide and also 
chaotic with guys calling on top of him instead of running split. For me, 
his signal was best at a heading of 122 degrees. This would be "short path". 
But "long path" with a heading of 302 was also pretty good.  After spending 
many hours, I did NOT work him.

I'm going to concentrate also on 17m CW short path between 1300 and 1700 
UTC.  And also I'm going to check out 20m CW long path between 1500 and 1700 
UTC. I'll jump back and forth between them and see what happens.


73   Roger  K5RKS