[RTTY] ZK2V on 40-meters

[Al Kozakiewicz]

Before the recent resurgence of 10m, a guaranteed good time in a DX contest was always 40m starting about 2 hours before local sunrise here in the northeast USA.  VK's were like shooting fish in a barrel.  Very easy to work.

With the return of 10m, and it being late afternoon/early evening in Australia, that's prime time for that band.  During the CQ WW this fall, I don't think I worked anyone in that part of the world on 40m - I stayed up until 6 AM for nothing!

Al
AB2ZY

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From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Don AA5AU [aa5au at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:49 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] ZK2V on 40-meters

That's a great catch!  Never underestimate a vertical on 40 meters at night.  I remember in a JARTS contest a l-o-n-g time ago (1993) a few hours before sunrise, I found VK9XG in the contest with a huge JA pileup.  I was running an old SB-200 with 300 watts on RTTY and an HF6VX vertical.  I didn't think I had a shot in breaking the pileup but decided to call anyway.  He came right back to me on the first call.  It was my first ever VK9X on any mode.

Then there was the time I was calling CQ in the middle of the afternoon on 40 meters and a VK6 came back to me (presumably longpath).  40 meters has always been my favorite band and the only band, up until recently with LoTW, that I chased DXCC on.  Sometimes you never know where your signal is being received.

73, Don AA5AU



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> From: "RLVZ at aol.com" <RLVZ at aol.com>
>To: rtty at contesting.com
>Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:06 AM
>Subject: [RTTY] ZK2V on 40-meters
>
>Hi Guys,
>
>I was missing RTTY, so I called CQ DX tonight a few times on 7043khz at
>0600Z... and was thrilled when ZK2V called me.  That's a new one for me on
>40-m.  If you need ZK2V on 40-m. you might try calling CQ around 0600Z.  Another
>amazing thing is that I was only running 100 watts into a Vertical.  (air
>cooled dummy load as some people call them)  ZK2V has very good ears!
>
>73,
>
>Dick- K9OM
>Edgewater, FL
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