Paul,
I heard you chatting with Dave off the back of my antenna here in
southern NH. When I turned it around you were around S4 on my S-Meter
and Dave was only S8. He was obviously not aiming my way at that time!
By far the strongest I have ever heard you. Later I heard you on CW.
Strong enough to read your call but not by much. Typical of how I hear
you.
John, WW1Z
FN42et
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 05:42:33 -0400 N1BUG <paul@n1bug.com> writes:
> Well that was nearly a bust! I don't know when I have seen conditions
> so
> poor and I made an error in strategy.
>
> I had a brief chat with K1WHS at the start.
>
> Tried a chat-coordinated sked with K1DS using Q65-60A. I saw
> nothing.
> Rick reported seeing a sync tone but no decodes. Discovered when it
> is
> hot in the shack my driver amp gets warmer than I feel is a good
> idea so
> I scrambled around really fast and found a 12V fan to sit on top of
> it
> and made a quick connection to a nearby power supply.
>
> Tried chat-coordinated skeds with KA2LIM and WA2VNV. Not a peep.
>
> Heard VE2XX talking to K1WHS but I was busy with a coordinated QSO
> attempt and didn't get a chance to work Stu.
>
> Heard someone else (N1QG I think but not 100% sure) with Dave but I
> was
> busy with a sked.
>
> Heard two stations chatting on 222.119.4, didn't give calls before
> they
> both faded out.
>
> Called CQ on CW for a while and worked WZ1V.
>
> So I had just two QSOs, K1WHS and WZ1V. Conditions seemed really
> horrible. One lesson learned for next time is no chat coordinated
> attempts in the first hour or so. That time should be left free for
>
> working the easy ones that I can hear around the band without
> assistance.
>
> There was some EME activity and since I had not had any prior
> opportunity to see if I could hear signals off the moon on 222 I
> went
> down to listen in on that. The only station transmitting was K1WHS.
> I
> was decoding him direct of course, but for 45 minutes or so I was
> also
> seeing his sync tone clearly via the EME path. At times I could also
> see
> all of his tones via the EME path, but I never got an EME decode.
> This
> was curious because I know Dave's EME signal was strong enough for
> solid
> decodes, probably around -20 to -18 or so. Does WSJT-X refuse to
> decode
> the same call sign twice on two different frequencies within the
> passband on JT65? I am encouraged that I could see Dave's EME signal
> so
> well despite a bit of power line noise, but it doesn't appear there
> is
> much interest in Q65 among the 222 EME crowd.
>
> I will be on ON4KST chat and Ping Jockey trying to find folks to run
>
> meteors this morning until 1300z. I have modified my schedule to
> free up
> all of Thursday the 12th and Friday the 13th (oops, do I want to run
>
> radios that day considering how my luck has been lately? HI HI) for
>
> meteor scatter. Unfortunately I don't think there are many within
> range
> on 222 that I haven't already worked. I hope some come out of the
> woodwork as I have been having a lot of fun with the meteors over
> the
> past week.
>
> 73,
> Paul N1BUG
> FN55mf
>
>
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