[SADXA] Mount Athos

[Jim Wysocki]

Dick, that's very good news, indeed.  Santa came early for several of us 
this year.

Jim  W9FI

On 12/17/2021 8:04 AM, 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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