[SEDXC] [SECC] BS7H - If you hear them (at any time)... CALL ME

[John Harden, D.M.D.]

With the poor propagation it takes a big antenna, plenty of power & a lot of
persistence. It's really pot luck to get through with the wide frequency
spread!! The worst problem is not the operators who forget the correct VFO
but the cops on the frequency... They were bad news...

I was on every morning on 20 this week and barely squeaked out with an SSB
and a CW contact. James was moving so fast using partial calls that it was
hard to get a real confirmation before he moved on...

I heard them well on 20 & 40. Even with a full size Telrex on 40 at 110
feet, and a 5 el Telrex 20 at 95 feet it was struggle....

With this operation, given a big signal, it was a matter of probability
relative to getting through. Maybe the pile-up will diminish this weekend
so a lot more people will get through.

73,

John, W4NU



-----Original Message-----
From: sedxc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:sedxc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Lewis Frederick Dennin II
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:35 AM
To: ku8e at bellsouth.net
Cc: sedxc at contesting.com; secc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SEDXC] [SECC] BS7H - If you hear them (at any time)... CALL ME

They were 55 to 57 on 20 phone this morning between 7:30 am and 9am local.
 Several 4s worked him but unfortunately, I was not in the right place at
the right time.

What a lidfest it was though.  I can understand everyone wanting to work
them but the ops were coming back to stations by their partial call and
guys kept calling that weren't even close to that call.  There "appeared"
to also be a lot of abuse of Portable 4 or whatever call district and the
ops bought it without any visible reservation.

Oh well, there's more important things in life to worry about.

Good luck in the quest.....Fred WW4LL

> Gary...
>
> I have been trying for the past three days. I have not heard them at all
> on any band in the evening.
> The only time I have heard them has been on Wednesday and Thursday morning
> near our sunrise on 30 meter CW and this morning on 20 CW and 40 CW. Their
> signal was ESP level on both 20 and 30 meters. They had a decent signal on
> 40 CW this morning.
>
> I have a feeling that some of their operators don't understand the
> propagation to the eastern part of
> the USA. If they would of been on 30 meters this morning they probably
> would of been workable.
>>From what I can tell we only have about a 3 hour window of good
>> propagation to work them in the morning. This morning the guy on 40 CW
>> worked US for about 45 mins and then went off the air. He then QSYed to
>> 7005 and worked only JA's only. He finally started to listen to the USA
>> again but by then his signal faded. You would think they had worked every
>> ham in JA by now since they have propagation on some band 24 hours a day
>> to BS7.
>
> I am going to put back up my 40 meter wire vertical after work tonight. It
> worked pretty good to get thru
> to VU7RG, so maybe It will work for BS7H too. It looks like our last
> chance will be Saturday morning since they will be QRT at 0000z Sunday
> (8:00PM Saturday here)I don't have high hopes . This is the 3rd BS7H
> Dxpedition and I have heard them every time but never got thru. Hopefully
> someone will go back when the sunspots come back.  GL.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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