[OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

[John Geiger]

It figures, since I am at work right now.  Good luck to everyone else!

73 John AF5CC


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Roger Simpson <rksimpson1 at cox.net> wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: W5LE
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 8:57 AM
> To: FT5ZM
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island
>
> Sorry, I failed to mention that this is via LONG PATH!
> On 1/27/2014 8:51 AM, W5LE wrote:
>
>> 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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> Reply   from Roger   K5RKS    1611 UTC   27  Jan
>
> Gene:
> It is cool that you worked him on 20m SSB this morning. He was also loud
> over here in OKC.  Normally OKC and Tulsa are the "same place" relative to
> AF, OC or AS but because we are so close to the antinode -- especially over
> here in Central and West OKLA -- things could be different between us. My
> long path beam heading was 300 degrees.
>
> I ended up working him on 20SSB at 1420UTC. He was xmitting on 14180 Khz
> and listening on 14172.9Khz.
>
> I MAY ??? have also worked him this morning on 20 CW at 1339UTC but there
> was junk on top of him so I'm not positive I dug my call out. I think at
> least the call was K??KS so it could have been me.
>
> As I write this the online log has not yet been updated for the first time.
>
> 73   Roger   K5RKS
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