[OKDXA] FT5ZM

[Roger Simpson]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Simpson
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:18 PM
To: Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] FT5ZM

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28 Feb 2021UTC
Sorry I have dyslexia over here. The DX call should be FT5ZM  -- not FT5MZ
73  Roger      K5RKS
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Kim Elmore
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:46 PM
To: Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] FT5ZM

I have found that the best heading is skewed almost 90 deg to the west (CCW)
from the shortest path heading ( about 29-30 deg). This has been uniform for
all bands. Since they are very near the antipode for us, SP and LP start to
lose meaning. Every beam heading essentially points to them and vice versa.
The skew has to be due to geomagnetic affects.

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:20, John Geiger <af5cc at fidmail.com> wrote:
>
> Congrats! Need them still here.  What time did you work them, and was it
> short or long path.  Heard them fairly well on 20m this morning, assume it
> was longpath.
>
> 73 John AF5CC
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Gary McCrorey 
> <garylm at kiamichiwb.org>wrote:
>
>>    HURRAY FINALLY WORKED THEM ON 20M CW.  GOOD LUCK ALL
>> GARY WQ5R
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>From Roger   K5RKS

I noticed the same skew on beam heading that many of you have mentioned. On
17meters at about 9:30AM Central time he was loudest at a heading of about
30 degrees. On 20 meters at about 8AM local Central Time he was loudest on
the "long path" which for me is about 300 degrees.

I just got a note the W3UR at Daily DX which is a copy of an e-mail from the
FT5MZ guys. They are still setting up their complete antenna field --
especially at the remote cabin that is about a mile uphill from the base
cabin. They are doing everything they can to get some type of internet
connectivity and they will notify us when they send their first log up to
the Internet.

I have to admit that I accidently punched A=B on my radio and so for about a
minute or so my receive VFO and my XMIT VFO were on the same freq. So I was
calling FT5MZ on his own freq this morning on 15M CW. I try to be alert to
what is going on. I don't think I've made this type of airhead mistake
before. Fortunately I saw the problem right away and got my VFOs
straightened out.

Also, I decided after 8 years with this rig that I'd actually see if I could
learn how to use the spectrum scope. Turns out is does provide "some help".

I am 90+% certain I'm in his log at least twice for SSB QSOs. And I'm about
40% certain I could be in there a couple more times on CW. But it was tough
to hear my own call clearly due to lids [like myself] on top of him.

73  Roger   K5RKS








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