[SADXA] ZL8X One to go.

[Wes Stewart]

We were up until about 1 AM watching TV.  I'd given up on trying to work them, but the coffee pot going off at 5 woke me up.  I thought, what the heck I check the band.  I was so tired I was disfunctional.  They weren't very strong and MMTTY was printing junk.  Each letter was printing three or four times.  In my stupor, I finally remembered that I had been playing with the audio line output level on the K3 the other day.  When I reduced it, things cleared up, including my head.

You are correct, they were working stations very slowly and there was zero discipline from the callers.  With the panadapter I could see that he would call someone and there were still dozens of stations still calling him.

He finally got a bit stronger and I was able to find a minimum (certainly not a hole) in the spectrum and he heard me.  It was really funny to spot him and say worked up 4.8 and watch the spectrum display.  Everybody piled on 4.8.  I should have spotted that before I worked him and then called up 3 :-)

We still have company to entertain today so if they show on 10-meters I'm out of luck again.

Wes

--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Keith KR7RK <keith at kr7rk.com> wrote:
Excellent!
I tried from about 4:15 - 5:15 but they weren't working any US stations,
mostly JA's...finally fell back asleep.
40m RTTY really has been a zoo and they work stations so slowly that it gets
rather frustrating.

Keith KR7RK

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Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 6:11 AM
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Subject: [SADXA] ZL8X One to go.

Finally! Worked them on 40-meters 7042.5 up @ 1305Z.

What a zoo. Just need 10-meter RTTY, unless they add another band of mode.

Wes