[OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

Kim Elmore cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 27 11:48:50 EST 2014 

How did you find where they're listening without a pan adapter? Or do you have one? A very few times I've picked out the station they're working but it's tough because so many lids never stop transmitting... That and the pike is 15-20 kHz wide. 

Kim N5OP

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> On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:39, Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Very good signals here on 20 ssb and 15 cw   15:30 or so to 16:30. You may have to take a sick day! Strong yesterday on 40 and 30 (late afternoon and evening), but I could not get their attention.
> 
> Bob
>> On 1/27/2014 10:25 AM, John Geiger 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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