On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:02 PM, Chris Sells wrote:
> FYI:
> Tried to work NQ4I earlier on forty but couldn't hear them. Did
> manage to work them on eighty earlier.
I managed to work NQ4I on all six bands. I found Rick on 20m just
before 0300z Friday. They had to send someone back to 10m to work me,
since they'd already shut down. He sent me number 15. Worked 15m with
ease, but then missed the jump to 40m.
Later found them on 80m, and went to 160m. Pretty easy.
40m was the hardest. My 40m sloper isn't working correctly. I also
suspect when they were beaming EU or JA that high angles just weren't
there. I could just barely hear them on Friday night.
I found them Sunday afternoon high in the 40m band working stations
casually. Very loud.
I had wanted to go down to NQ4I for this contest, but my injured back
plus all the Easter happenings made that impossible. I figured that
giving them 6 points plus the AA4 mult was the least I could do.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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