[OKDXA] South Sandwich Dxpedition

[Jeff Martin]

WOW, just looked at the map. They definitely are behind the mountain toward
their NW, right toward us. No wonder they are so weak... 
My QSO's so far:
15 CW
20 SSB
20 CW
30 CW & RTTY
40 CW
17 CW
Best signals by far on 30 meters, late afternoon/early evening. The 20 meter
SSB QSO was at about 4:30AM one morning, heard him very weak calling CQ and
listening on his own frequency. Also, the 40 meter QSO was long path, 2 S
units louder toward the NW than short path (0105Z). Noticed another
interesting path on the 17 QSO, signals seemed best beaming 90 degrees,
straight east. Only heard a whisper one time on 12 meters, not loud enough
to call, nothing heard on 10 or 80... 

73,

Jeff - K5WE
 

-----Original Message-----
From: OKDXA [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert
Redmon
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 1:10 PM
To: Bill Roberson; Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] South Sandwich Dxpedition

Same here, Bill. 30 meters the first day, 40 meters a couple days
ago....heard them on 17, but too weak to try. Also heard them on 80 and 160,
but also too weak to try. Already had S. Sandwich on 20, 15, and 10.

Has John worked them yet?

Bob

On 1/24/2016 12:34 PM, Bill Roberson wrote:
> Looks like to me that the Dxpedition is set up on the SE side of the
island and we have the mountain (volcano?) between us and them.  Also the
signals have to pass over almost the full length of South America to reach
Oklahoma.  I have worked them on 40 0148Z, 30 0236Z and 20 0425Z Cw and SSB
on 20 0025Z and Rtty on 30 0401Z.  I haven't heard them on the higher
frequencies at all.  Guess It is just bad geography and bad propagation.
> Bill/N5AQ
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