[SADXA] Mount Athos

[Richard Solomon]

>From past experience it's usually Cards only with
a contribution to the Monastery.

This card will cost you 5 Euros.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 8:49 AM Bill Mullin <MrBill at aa4m.com> wrote:

> GM Dick,
>
> I saw your QSO and managed to work him a few minutes after you.
>
> You don't happen to know if they are QSLing all contacts with LotW or if
> I need to go through Clublog to get the LotW QSL?
>
> Merry Christmas,
> Bill  AA4M
>
>
> On 12/17/2021 08:04:46, Richard Solomon wrote:
> > 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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