[Mldxcc] FT5ZM

[John Kozusko]

Well, I have been trying for days to contact these folks.  This am on 20 m one try with 400 watts. Little pileup.





________________________________
 From: Bill Haddon <haddon.bill at gmail.com>
To: Chris Tate - N6WM <ctate at ewnetinc.com> 
Cc: mldxcc <mldxcc at contesting.com> 
Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Mldxcc] FT5ZM
 

N6WM wrote:
>It's a strange expedition when the 80 &160 q is easy and the 30 m q is
luck ;-).

Yes, stranger than fiction ..  fairly easily worked on 160 this morning,
then I got lucky on 30m, only US stn worked in a long string of Europeans.
Much more challenging than on 160.  But they were "only" S-8 on 80 meters
at 1545Z vs 20 over 9 yesterday.

I'm now done with this one.

73 Bill n6zfo


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Chris Tate - N6WM <ctate at ewnetinc.com>wrote:

> It's a strange expedition when the 80 &160 q is easy and the 30 m q is
> luck ;-).
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 5:04 PM, "Bill Haddon" <haddon.bill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Robert Hess <w1rh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> I also got them on 80 this morning but listened and listened and could
> not
> > hear them on 160.
> >
> > Heard you work them this morning on 80cw. . .  FT5ZM was running an
> > incredible 20 over nine earlier (on the 40m DE Zepp at 75 feet) down to
> S-8
> > when you worked them.  Much weaker yesterday morning  an hour earlier for
> > my own QSO with 200w, maybe 4th call.
> >
> > I overslept a bit and didn't get down to the shack until maybe 0215Z I
> > think they quit 160 at 0230. . . peaking at S-3 on the Beverage,
> invisible
> > on the vertical.
> >
> > Later FT5ZM was on 30m, S-8 working mostly Eu plus lucky N6WM.   No luck
> > for me, but earlier easily worked FR5ZL for a new 30m country, #203 on
> 30m.
> >
> > 73 Bill n6zfo
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Robert Hess <w1rh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I also got them on 80 this morning but listened and listened and could
> not
> >> hear them on 160.  I started listening around 6:40 AM local time.  I
> live
> >> just below the top of a mountain, but on the east side.  Noise level was
> >> high on 160.  I worked them at around 7:30 local time on 80.
> >>
> >> Bob
> >> W1RH
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thursday, February 6, 2014 8:34 AM, K6LE - Rick <k6le at mac.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> While not quite as quick as Shirl (took me 3 calls) I had a heck of a
> time
> >> dragging myself out of bed by 7 this morning but I got them on 80 CW at
> >> 1521.
> >>
> >> 100 Watts to a 94' wire (ZS6BKW) @ 30' -  internal tuner in the K3
> handles
> >> it's 6:1 nicely.
> >>
> >> So, I have three of my four objectives done (Phone, CW and 80M) just
> need
> >> them on RTTY to call it a wrap for me.
> >>
> >> Rick
> >> K6LE
> >>
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