Congrats on the 95 percent success rate.
This reminds me of the QSOs VE7SB (I think I remember that call right) and
VK3ZL did. They managed to make QSOs like everyday for over a year I
believe. Someone else on the list might remember the details better than I
can.
Tree N6TR
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Don Kirk <wd8dsb@gmail.com> wrote:
> For those of you that have been getting up early each morning to listen for
> LU5OM, just wanted to let you know that we have reached the end of our year
> long test. Manuel (LU5OM) and I (WD8DSB) are pretty worn out getting up
> almost every morning (0845 UTC) for one year. Manuel will still continue
> to be very active on 160 meters as he closes in on his DXCC, but our
> official schedule has ceased.
>
> As previously reported, our test turned out to be very interesting in that
> I was able to copy Manuel at least 95% of the days that I listened
> (including my summer months with lots of lightning crashes), with copy
> meaning I could copy his call sign and hear him say he was calling CQ. Our
> path is almost a true North/South path (actually 160 degrees) at a distance
> of 4700 miles. For the majority of our test Manuel used a top loaded
> vertical (currently 64 foot tall) and 500 watts. My RX situation is a small
> pennant (51.6% of full size) using one W7IUV preamp, an old Kenwood TS-180s
> with 500 Hz filter and a 200 Hz hi-per-mite active audio filter.
>
> As I said before, this (95% success rate) is something I would have never
> thought possible when we started our year long test.
>
> Just FYI and 73,
> Don wd8dsb (and Manuel LU5OM)
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