[OKDXA] Reunion Island

[Jeff Martin]

Hello Roger,
 Glad you got him. You don't hear Reunion every day on 30 meters. Also saw
S79VU on Seychelles about the same time. No ice here, we stayed barely above
freezing the whole time. Lots of rain. Guess the Central part of the state
got hit pretty hard... 

73,
Jeff - K5WE


-----Original Message-----
From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Roger Simpson
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:03 AM
To: OKDXA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [OKDXA] Reunion Island

Jeff:

Thanks for the putting up the note about FR5DZ Reunion.   I saw the note 
about a half an hour ago. So I cranked back up my tower and removed a 
few branches that had fallen on the sides of my sloping dipole for 30m.  
  By the time I got everything tuned up for 30m and started lilstening of 
FT8 I heard the FR5 working other stateside stations. After a minute or 
so he called CQ and I worked  him on the first call. I guess everything 
is OK here after the ice storm -- at least the sloping dipoles for 30m 
and 40m are working.

Yesterday afternoon quite a lot of ice starting melting off the elements 
and boom of the beam. I am going to test it now to see if it is working 
OK.  During the ice storm the traps were encased in a pipe of ice that 
was about 3/8" thick. When I look up there now it seems to have all 
melted.

BTW, As I type this at 14:00 UTC FT5DZ is still calling CQ on FT8 at an 
offset of 880Hz away from 10.136 Mhz. On my sloping dipole his signal is 
-15 dB.

73  Roger   Oklahoma City
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