[OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

Mon Jan 27 11:32:44 EST 2014

Yeah, what John said. Rats!

Kim N5OP

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> On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:25, John Geiger <af5cc at fidmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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