[OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

[Roger Simpson]

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Reply  ---- K5RKS   Roger       2025  UTC    31 Jan

John & Kim:

I've only been into DXing for about ten years. This Amsterdam operation is 
different in some ways from any other operation. The pileups are unruly
but not as bad as Scarborough or Peter I. There are some good openings BUT 
they are short (maybe 45 / day or less) for a given band {except for 20m and 
17m which have longer openings} For once, the EU guys seem fairly well 
behaved and giving us guys here in NA a chance.

The openings to the Pacific [Scarborough, Conway Reef , and the Antarctic 
Islands [South Shetland, Peter I, etc] were much longer each day.

At my age this is likely the last chance I'll have for Amsterdam so I'm glad 
I at least worked him on CW and PHONE. My goal is to see if I can make it to 
the bottom (not the top) of the Honor Roll. I still have 6 or 8 to go. My 
count now is 328 but that includes some deleted countries.

It is crazy that otherwise normal people arrange their lives around being 
able to send  599 TU to some guy using the radio. However, even my XYL is 
kinda interested in the idea of being able to talk to the farthest place 
there is on the other side of the earth (Well at least the farthest place 
that is not on the ocean).

73   Roger   K5RKS


-----Original Message----- 
From: John Geiger
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 2:00 PM
To: Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] FT5ZM Amsterdam Island

Hope I get them soon.  This has been a busy week with work and doctors
appointments, and they don't seem to be choosing bands that fit with my
schedule :(.  For example, I had some free time this morning, but they
weren't on 30m.  The other night when I was free they weren't on 20 CW.
That is the band I am hearing them best on.  Did put up a Mosley mini 32A
tribander which seems to be helping, especially on 20.

I just want 1 QSO with them so I can get life back to more normal and
having to stop arranging it around some RF coming from the Southern Indian
Ocean!

73 John AF5CC


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Well, rats! I guess I didn't get them on 10 m. Oh, well!
>
> Kim N5OP
>
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