[Mldxcc] #244

[Alan Maenchen]

FB Rick!
Congrats!

Thanks for your note. I wasn't thinking about K1N tonight. But after seeing
your note I turned on the radio and found them at 7023. Had to wait a while
.. like 10-15 min while he was calling JA only. A couple of times he forgot
to say "JA" and I jumped in. Got him on one of those lapses. At least I
hope it's the real deal.

73, Alan  AD6E / KH6TU (ATNO #39 with this call :-)



On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Rick WA6NHC <wa6nhc at comcast.net> wrote:

> Whew!  A long evening and I was beginning to think that I was only heating
> the ground with my 600 watts.  I normally do very well on 40 and this was
> frustrating.  The Caribbean is normally a no brainer from here.
>
> But K1N *FINALLY* answered my call on 40.  ATNO #244 is in the log.
>
> However, much of the evening was also spent finding out where the K1N TX
> VFO knob was bumped to this time, up 600, down 400 or maybe just 30-60 Hz
> per bump (at least the tuner uppers and others had a harder time
> interfering).  Hooray for the P3 panadapter to find them quicker, it kept
> me on course.
>
> I fully support SMALL shifts in the TX freq for just that purpose, to
> defeat the ne'er do wells.    Something obviously isn't quite right on
> location yet.  Perhaps as simple as a crowded tiny shack with others
> setting up and bumping the table?  It will be an interesting read later and
> I look forward to it.
>
> The operator (otherwise) is doing an excellent job and is keeping the Q
> rate respectably high.  With the lids sounding off in the RX portion (just
> sending calls without listening, or worse), it was really hard to track
> where he was listening (and I give the op praise for that, panadapters make
> it 'easy').  Finally, when Europe conditions shut down and ZL/VK was
> starting to pick up, it was cleared enough to figure it out.  The other
> option was to simply pick a frequency and hope he passed by and heard you.
>
> I write this not as a complaint, but as a note to others in the hunt that
> something unusual is going (at least tonight) on so you have to be doubly
> on your toes.  They were literally all over the place, most unusual (maybe
> one of those cat sized rats wandered through?). The initial wall was solid
> up 35 KHz, impressive, even daunting.
>
> I saw some familiar calls scroll by too, N6PSE, W6OAT, W6SR and others...
> Congratulations all.
>
> Now if the propagation shapes up, I might be able to get some band modes
> too.  But at least the pressure is off (once I confirm in the online
> logbook).
>
> 73 es best DX,
> Rick WA6NHC
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