[SADXA] [CADXA DX Talk] Email from YJ0ANR Tom Kramer

[Richard Solomon]

Bummer ... new ones on RTTY (or Digital to be PC !!) are hard to come by.
Whens the next plane leave !!

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Jerry <jdwothe at cox.net> wrote:

> **
> All:
>
> I trust the following note was intended for all but only got sent to me. He
> addressed it to me and all thus my assumption.
>
> It answers the question I posed this morning.
>
> Jerry
> W6XI
>
> Hello to all,
>    Jerry, you hit the nail on the head "He has to be  going crazy not
> doing any operating.",  I find it hard to see radios/antennas sitting there
> not being used, if I could I would be on 16/7 ( gotta get some 'old geezer'
> sleep), but as those of you that have been on expeditions know we have to
> share!  Ben (YJ0ABP/DJ0YI/N6MUF) and I worked out pretty well in sharing
> when we were by ourselves, but with intermod and 6 other blokes (well one is
> a blokess) it cuts down our operating.  Plus it seems most of the others are
> not driven to operate as I am.
>   Plus some of us decided to make an appearance in the Oceana SSB contest
> but Ben and I got the 40/15 assignment and found it hard to make many QSO's,
> I think our station contributed only about 160 contacts.  Ben is not a SSB
> guy so hopefully we should be more active for the CW contest.
>   We don't really have any gain antennas so if you hear/work us you can be
> assured your RX station is doing well.  When it was/will be Ben and I we use
> only two antennas: my 30 m delta loop and Ben has some sort of loop antenna
> he got in Germany that supposedly can work 40-10.  For what it is it seems
> to work reasonably well.  I really hated to leave the great 10m pile-up we
> had on the 30th but had to have a team meeting.  We have had a few fantastic
> openings with wall-to-wall stations calling for up to 5 kHz  so for me it is
> usually a case of picking up partial calls and going from there.  The JA's
> have been their usual courteous group for the most part,  Europe, well what
> can I say that hasn't been already.
>    The one big disappointment for me is the digital operation, right now
> for me there won't be one.  I got everything set up at home all working
> great, then get here and for some reason Ben's K3 will not do digital the
> way mine did.  I am going to try emailing Elecraft and see if they can
> suggest what might be wrong.  There is a configuration setting on Ben's
> radio that I don't recall ever seeing on mine.  When setting up the
> 'mic+Lin' his radio says "not appl".  The end result is I can key the radio
> but no RF comes out (or very little).
>    To end this have to send a WX report.  I see triple digits for AZ until
> late in the week so I don't miss that.  As Hank can attest, it is very humid
> here and uncomfortable in the afternoon but not bad at night.  Had a nice
> shower this AM otherwise very nice weather.
>   Thanks to all who called and I hope I haven't missed any of you in the
> pile-ups.  Hopefully with the contest done we can get the CW flowing more
> this week.  Special thank to K7WP for the phone call.
> 73's  Tom YJ0ANR
>
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