[South Florida DX Association] Fwd: Re: rough seas on cocos islands

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For those looking for Cocos Keeling the following may be useful -
Norm W4QN
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In a message dated 11/18/2005 10:51:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
w9ixx at arrl.net writes:
>Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:16:51 -0500
>Subject: Re: rough seas on cocos islands
>To: W9IXX at arrl.net
>X-Scanned-By: IEEE UCE Filtering Service (uce . ieee . org) on 140.98.193.231
>
>Hi Phil,
>      Well, I usually operate sijmplex until I draw a crowd, but it could 
> be I don't split people off soon enough--in other words there are more 
> people there than I realize!  I was on 20 this morning (it is 10:40 am 
> here Friday so we are 11 1/2 hrs ahead of you so it is Thurs night there) 
> and worked several from your area including W2AY and N4AA in N. 
> Carolina.  We'll be back on 30 mtr tonight (your morning) I suppose.  We 
> work around 160 mtr at sunset/sunrise, but 160- and 80 were both poor 
> today--lots of QRN.  We are going to put up another 160 ant today for 
> receiving.
>      Mike, you may be on your YN trip, but I saw that hurricane 2 wks ago 
> was hitting there, so perhaps you have cancelled.  I listened on 14.260 
> for you guys the other day.  We are not operating 17 mtr nor above 20 mtr 
> otherwise. Don't know what times you are likely to come thru here, but 
> I'll keep checking.  Chas says no sigs on 15...and we don't hve an 
> antenna.     73's      I'll listen for you Phil.
>Burt