[SADXA] Mount Athos

[Jim Wysocki]

Congrats, Bill.  It gladdens my heart to see that my comments bore fruit.

73,  Jim  W9FI

On 12/17/2021 8:45 AM, Bill Mullin 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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