[OKDXA] VK0EK

Sun Mar 27 21:44:15 EDT 2016

Well, if each of you will please QRX until Killing Jesus is over! The K5YAA of VK0EK is a pretty good one but if isn't a match for the greatest story ever told and anyway Jesus likely wouldn't appreciate me watching my iPhone channel instead of the one his life story is on so if you will please QRX 90. I will complete my Heard adventure later this evening or first thing in the morning. 

Briefly see if you can Heard Heard 
(an echo) at around 5:30am local on 10.115.99. If you can Heard Heard answer his CQ, yes CQ as only a couple 8 landers were calling him and he couldn't hear them. The only two signals on the band besides those two unheard 8s was HC2AO and Alex left to hunt Easter eggs right after snagging EK. 

I actually think Alex worked a seal that had commandeered a Vibroplex! 

After I figured out EK was sending 
DN 1 and not UP 1 I bagged him for the family members with three successive callas. I was looking for a massive pileup but hear was one of the most desolate places on earth calling CQ. It was until 6:30 local that any action started up at all. Ahuge string of JAs started in with a BAtosswd in now and then for good measure. I was Hearding both sides if every Q. A handful of stout VKs started in about 6:45 local. now the East Coast about 6;55. Nil NA Qs even though some big East coasters were hollering. A couple of 4s sent 5NN TU but didn't make an actual Q. 

At 7AM sharp the peace officers showed up. DN DN DN LID! Not sure who they were ticketing 'cause not one NA station had been worked since 5:30 when I bagged 'em. I turned the K3 off at 7:30 at which time EK had drifted down to S4 and began working Euros along with JAs and a handful of UA0s and 9s. Roughly an hour later the only EK spots I saw were for 80/160. More to the story as I sort of chronicled blow by blow actions of a top CW man. 

73 for now and good hunting!

Jerry - K5YAA

P.S. Keep your chin up. N5KD Pete in Dallas has fetched VK0EK on 15/20/30/40/80 using a Butternut vertical a leaning against a redwood  fence and  a KOA500 amp. the 500 stands for 1/2 a gallon!  

The 15 Meter Q Pete made put him on the Honor Roll. 

> Pardon Folks:
> 
> I was watching Killing Jesus on TV and laid the iPhone down and accidentally hit the little send button. At times the tiny keyboard on my apple tree and i don't get along to well together! 
> 
> To complete my Heard Is. story I nonchalantly took a look at 30 meters around 5:25AM local time withe the yagi at 116 degrees. stout HC2AO was pounding away on 10.115. I thought Alex was demonstrating contest operation o. The WARC bands as he swiftly sent his call 8 or 10 In 15 or 20
> seconds. I continued scanning upwards and stumbled upon a solid S meter reading of S8 and caught the tail end of his call hearing EK. Seems I saw somewhere that VK0EK was to fire up 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Jerry Chouinard <k5yaa at yahoo.com>
>> Date: March 27, 2016, 7:43:07 PM CDT
>> To: Oklahoma DX Association <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] VK0EK
>> 
>> OKDXAers: 
>> 
>> This Easter morning at 11:20Z and because the M2 3el 30 yagi is more vertical than horizontal due to truss cable and mast plate slippage, my 3el 40 meter yagi was given a 3Mhz haircut, using a LDG tuner. The trimming was sort of akin to shortening your sideburns with a sharp pair of hedge trimmers or perhaps sitting in Floyd's barbershop on Mayberry's Main Street getting your ear hairs pulled out while listening to Barney carry on about his single bullets worth of firepower. 
>> 
>> I have a 15 meter confirmation from Heard Is. during the VK0IR expedition 
>> back in 1997 but since I had be writing all night and was half-heartedly listening to 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 11:24 PM, <GARYLM at kiamichiwb.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> ANYONE WHO WANTS TO WORK THE VK0EK HE IS ON 10.116 LISTENING DOWN 2. THE BEST I HAVE EVER HEARD THEM SNCE THEY WERE THERE.  STARTED BUILDING UP AT AROUND 10:50PM OUR TIME NOW IS VERY WORKABLE.
>>> GO GET HIM;
>>> 73 WQ5R GARY
>>> 
>>> --- k5sm.bob at gmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> From: Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com>
>>> To: Oklahoma DX Association <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] VK0EK
>>> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:04:25 -0500
>>> 
>>> Congrats! He is very strong here with lots of flutter!
>>> 
>>> On 3/26/2016 7:56 PM, mikek5uv--- via OKDXA wrote:
>>>> Just worked at 116.18, just at the noise level, with all the jammers it was pretty much esp and luck
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 73  es GL
>>>> 
>>>>    Mike
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