[SADXA] Mount Athos

[Jim Wysocki]

Here are some tips that might result in a Mt. Athos QSO for several of 
our club members.  Monk Iakovos has been on 7.057 FT8 all week long from 
about 0400Z until about 0700Z.  His signal could only be decoded by my 
equipment from about 0530Z.  I heard the pileup about an hour before I 
could copy the his station.  What got me listening seriously last night 
was that I made an easy FT8 QSO with another Greek station and I figured 
if Greece could be copied, so also could be Mt. Athos.

Monk Iakovos uses Fox and Hound mode and answers stations from different 
parts of the world in groups, i.e., several Europeans, followed by 
several North Americans, then Caribbean stations, South American 
stations, and so forth, before he repeats the cycle again.  When 
propagation becomes difficult he breaks with that pattern and answers 
whomever he hears at that particular time.  One of his simultaneous 
transmit streams will use the call SV2RSG/A, and another will simply ID 
as SV2RSG.  He will use between one and three QSO streams, depending on 
propagation.  Last night his signal strength varied from -10 to +5 with 
gradual QSB and no QRM.

Happy Hunting,  Jim  W9FI

On 12/16/2021 1:42 PM, Wes wrote:
> I'm pleased to report that both Jim, W9FI, and I completed contacts 
> with SV2RSG/A on 40-meter FT8 last night about 0600Z.  We are both in 
> the log posted on Clublog and have submitted QSL requests via OQRS.
>
> This is an ATNO for me; number 339, making me one away from having 
> them all.  I would MUCH prefer that this was on CW (or SSB) but at my 
> age this is probably my only option.
>
> Wes  N7WS
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