[SADXA] Mount Athos

[Richard Solomon]

Tnx to Jim's tips I came home after the Christmas Party
and fired up the rig. There were quite a few calling, but
no sign of the Monk replying.

Then at 0430Z, he called CQ, sigs were -6 so I jumped
into the fray. Then, most of the callers went away ??

Was it propagation or what, who knows. Called three
times and back he came. Q confirmed in Club Log and
QSL Card sent for.

With that card in hand I will be at 329 Confirmed on
Digital (320 confirmed on RTTY).

A very merry Christmas !!!

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 2:33 PM Jim Wysocki <wysocki1 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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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