[WSWSS] Ping Jockey Web Site, JT44, and The Lack of W6's & W7's

Mon, 7 Apr 2003 21:39:51 -0700

Hello Tim,
	I think a lot of guys go hot and heavy for awhile on a daily
basis then get burned out quickly. It takes awhile for them to return
again. I have been getting home from work at 10 PM everyday and most of
the time, no one locally is around on all three ping jockey / JT-44
pages at that time because of bedtime for most. I can only be QRV from
about 11 PM till 6 AM when everyone is asleep and the weekends have been
consumed pulling weeds around the house. I also noted a increase of the
guys showing up on the satellites lately. My best guess is most people
are checking the pages to see no-one is on and then simply shutting
down. Try putting out requests on HSMS reflector and multiple postings
on the pages.

JT-44 is extremely powerful !!! I worked my smallest European small
single yagi station off the moon afew months ago even completed a two
way QSL card exchange !! I haven't been getting any postings from the
HSMS reflector in months so don't know whats going on there ?!?! 

A few months back, I was working the guys down in Nevada, Arizona area
off of both meteor scatter and tropo ( FSK441 and JT-44 ) with only a
few watts and a 5 ele beam  on 6 meters..that was fun !!!

K7XQ Jeff
Atwater, CA.
Grid: CM97qi
EME, Satellites, Meteor Scatter
CW, FSK441 or JT-44

144 MHz: 4 X 3 W.L. 800 Watts Single 3CX800A7
EME Initials: 60
432 MHz: 2 X 9 W.L. 800 Watts ( soon 4 X 9 W.L. ) 2 X 4CX400A 
EME Initials: 5
1296 MHz: 3.1 Meter Dish 130 Watts at feed 2 X 2C39 water-cooled
"Hi-Spec"
EME Initials: 16

K7XQ Webpage ( EME Antenna Pictures ):
http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Tim Marek
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 7:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Reflector VHF
Subject: [WSWSS] Ping Jockey Web Site, JT44, and The Lack of W6's & W7's

Hey Gang!

Each evening I steer my web browser to the Ping Jockey Web Site
hoping to find some stations logged on from the Western US. More
often than not I am the only station on from either Six or Seven land.

I am working hard at adding to my 2M JT44 Qso/Grid/State totals but
it's hard if no one else is active. 

Repeated JT44 CQ's on 144.140 in the evening go unanswered. Grids
that have resident "Weak Signal" types are silent except for contents
and even then it's hit and miss if they end up in your log. 

What to do? Anyone up for a weekly JT44 Net? The power of this mode
is awesome! From home I am able to work people that normally would 
not be audible unless it was from a tall mtn somewhere. WA7ADK in
DN31 (Utah) and myself seem to be able to work at will, over a very 
long and difficult path, even off the back of his yagi! 

So, does anyone want to join me on JT44 in the evenings? Any and all 
ideas & comments are appreciated!

73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09ol... sk

June 2003 VHF QSO Party - K7XC Single Op - DM17 - ABCDE
Where will you be in June?

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