[OKDXA] FT5ZM

Tue Jan 28 17:16:06 EST 2014

    Unfortunately, I have done the same thing the last few days.   I hate it 
when i do that,  this morning i hit a/b and some how when switching back did 
not get swapped.  so was receiving and sending reverse.
    That is one thing I hate on the orion II is you have to push button on a 
and b vfo for either transmit or receive,, and sometimes don't notice i 
haven't pushed it back to transceive.
    Good luck on all working them, pile up thining enough to find stations 
now.  Hope they get their logs uploaded so we know if we have them.
    On the peter one expedition I heard them come back to me on 160m but 
ended up not in log.
73 all wq5r
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Simpson" <rksimpson1 at cox.net>
To: "Oklahoma DX Association" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] FT5ZM


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>
> -----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
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> 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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