[OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

[W5LE]

FT5ZM is coming through with a legitimate 5/5-57 signal with no pre-amp, 
on 14180 and he's listening down 5 to 10 for NA/SA.
I just worked him with my own call as well as the OKDXA club call NE5OK 
within a few Q's of each other.
Go get 'em!!!



On 1/27/2014 4:06 AM, Roger Simpson wrote:
>
>
> -----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
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