[SEDXC] Still chasing TO4E

[Gary McConville]

DITTO!!!

Gary - WB4SQ

--- "Macie, Gordon" <GMacie at innotrac.com> wrote:
> They were on 80 and 40 last night 9:30 till 11:30 or
> so local..I could hear
> them well but no luck barefoot.. Still need 1st qso
> , running out of time..
> Seems like a mess. They were on 7002.. Started
> working guys 7004 and kept
> going up to at least 7030.. wipes out the whole band
> covers up existing
> qso.s. People just call and call. I was wondering if
> most of the people were
> even hearing them. He would answer and I would try
> to spot the freq of who
> he was working and most of the time 20 people were
> still calling.. i see
> nothing has changed in 20 years.. dont like this
> method of using the whole
> band to rcv though.. that shouldnt be needed with a
> good op..
> 
> Gordon N4LR.
> 
> Gordon N4LR
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David L. Thompson
> [mailto:thompson at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:34 PM
> To: sedxc at contesting.com
> Subject: [SEDXC] Still chasing TO4E 
> 
> 
> I worked TO4E on 17 for #349 there.  I have been up
> 4 or 5 times when he is
> on 12 meters but for some reason W1 to 3, W4 VA,
> W8,9.0 and even 5 and 7 are
> working him but today I finally heard him for
> several transmissions on
> 24.954.  I heard several in Atlanta and N4KG calling
> him
> but not sure if anyone got through.  When the pile
> up got quiet he was
> listening on 24.959.8 and several got thru ...I
> could hear him on 25% of the
> peaks so I knew who he was working.  I could still
> hear him working Europe
> after all the stateside quit calling then a V47 came
> almost on frequency and
> that was that.  I could hear him in the background
> and several of the
> Europeans tried calling the V47 (EA3, F5, I1POR) to
> tell him but he was
> listening for USA.
> 
> Its funny but on 10, 15, and 17 he at first was very
> weak and only working
> Florida or Northern USA
> but the past few days he comes in well on 17 and 15.
>  He was even S5 on 10
> at 1300Z.  But for some reason the signal on 12 acts
> just like a close in
> Caribbean (just hearable in the background).  With
> W3 and W8 reporting S9
> its just like 6Y5 or ZF which we only catch on short
> skip.  I came up on
> Wednesday at his normal appearance time for NA
> (1700Z) and I called CQ DX on
> 24.945.  I worked a HI8, LU, and a number of
> Brazilian pirates (they just
> let me know they heard me and one cussed me out in
> Portuguese ).  Then at
> 1745Z 5R8FU called in at S5.  He was on today
> talking to several Europeans
> today just below 24930 and was S4 even beaming on
> Europe.
> 
> Either this TO4E is a hoax on 12 or somehow we live
> in a hole on this one on
> 12.  I did hear him two weeks ago when band
> conditions were good at 1340Z
> but he QRT before I could call him.  I heard several
> locals then.
> 
> They go QRT on Sunday or Monday...maybe one day
> Atlanta will hear them again
> well enough to work them on 12.
> 
> Stuck at #318 on 12 for several months 73 Dave K4JRB
> 
> 
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