This morning, in 3-land, they were S-9+ on 40m LP about an hour after
our sunrise. Most days this past week, they had a decent signal on
20m LP an hour or two after sunrise. Today was an exception, being
much louder on 40, the MUF must have been lower. They've also had a
decent SP signal on 40m in the evening, peaking around their sunrise
at 0130Z.
Don't forget they are running 100W to verticals. If you can hear
them, they can hear you better.
Overall, on the east coast, the time to catch them is within an hour
or two of sunrise or sunset, depending on the band.
GL in the pileups,
Barry W2UP
On 25 Mar 2005 Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> My guess for most of the USA will be long path on 20 meters in our
> morning time. Yesterday, they had an OK signal long path on 20 meter
> SSB and this morning they were much stronger long path on 20 meter CW
> working mainly JA and W4's around 1300Z.
>
> I worked FT5XJ on RTTY in July 1994 (11 years ago - ring a bell?) on
> 20 meters at around 1230Z on the long path.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 9:42 AM To:
> John- W4DJ; rtty@contesting.com Subject: Re: [RTTY] ft5xo in rtty
>
> --- John- W4DJ <w4dj@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Plans for RTTY by FT5XO are to start this weekend during the WPX SSB
> > contest. They have been weak here all bands in the evenings. Totally
> > Nil during the morning.
>
> They had reasonable morning signals in W1 on Wednesday (booming on 20
> around 7 am. local time), less so on Thursday and almost nothing on
> Friday. Solar flux is going down. Hopefully RTTY will follow the MUF.
>
> - Jim
>
>
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