[SADXA] VP8STI on 3.523.16

[Jerry Wothe]

I have noticed they have spent a lot of time on SSB on 80 which seems to 
really be hard to pick calls out especially when condx are bad and the 
pile so big but I guess they need to service that mode. Sure would be 
interesting to see how the efficiencies of the two modes have been for 
this OP.

Perhaps I will try again tonight for exercise if nothing else but do it 
later when folks have given up and gone to bed to thin the pile a bit. I 
have never gotten very excited about 80m for what ever the reason but 
this becomes a challenge after a while.

We will see what tonight brings.

On 1/24/2016 7:13 AM, Jim W wrote:
> I've never heard a pileup this size on 80 before.  I could hear 
> hundreds calling so there must have been thousands that he heard. A 
> few days ago I heard the operator on 20 give an off-the-cuff comment.  
> He said that what he heard most of the time was an S-9 plus 20 roar 
> that was 10 KHZ wide.
>
> On 1/24/2016 6:01 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> Congrats on getting them on 80.
>> I listened and called him much earlier in the evening for a while but 
>> the pile was unreal and I went back to watching for them on 160. Not 
>> a whisper on 160 since the first couple of days after they arrived 
>> there. We are about out of time with them on Sandwich so it may just 
>> not happen.
>>
>> On 1/23/2016 11:16 PM, Jim W wrote:
>>> Weak (with an RST of 519) but workable, so call anyway if you can 
>>> hear him.  He's transmitting at 22 WPM, says the reverse beacon 
>>> network.  He is answering the stations that match his code speed and 
>>> ignoring the rest, so get as close to his speed as you can.
>>>
>>> He had trouble getting my call, but got it OK after a couple of 
>>> repeats.  My transmit frequency was 3.526.91 .  This is a tremendous 
>>> pileup with many, many very strong USA signals.  I didn't think I'd 
>>> get through but tried anyway.
>>>
>>> I spent today raising the other half of my 80M dipole another 12 
>>> feet and it paid off tonight.
>>>
>>> GL and 73,  Jim  W9FI
>>>
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