[SEDXC] TI8M worked

[Ken Reid]

Hi Group,
I worked both YN5Z and TI8M early in the contest both on 20 meters. If they
were on other bands I either did not hear them or could not get through.
I heard TI8M coming through strong all weekend even when only a few stations
could be heard on 20.
FYI 100 watts and a inverted L up at 65 feet here, with a Kenwood TS-870
168 contacts and 55 countries-60681 score.
My only 160 was Columbia-but I had that already. Also got New Zealand on 20,
and that was my farthest contact.
The biggest problem with hunt and pounce are stations that do not identify
very often, so as you are tuning around and find a station, and then have to
wait a long time to identify it, only find out its one you already
have-ouch.
It sure is great when someone works really hard, and does not give up to get
a dicey contact.
I worked a bunch of deep Europe on 40, and that was a hoot.
Odd how propagation works-all of a sudden you hear a bunch from the UK or
Canary Islands etc
One 6 band and a few 5, 4, and 3 band contacts with the strong stations.
Never heard any Pacific, Galapagos, AK, Scandinavia , Asia or Africa.
Conditions seemed noisy in general.
73
Ken
KG4USN-midtown ATL


On 3/4/13 1:51 AM, "David  Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com> wrote:

> TI8M was worked easily on Saturday Afternoon on 10 and 20.  They were very
> weak on 15.  I noticed the same conditions on YN5Z.
> 
> Sunday I heard them on 21.239 and again they were weak and PJ4G up 2 was 40
> over 9.  Up the band YN5Z was even weaker.  This between 2000 and 2130Z
> I finally worked them at 2210Z when they peaked S9.  I only ran 90 watts to
> a 24 year old Icom.
> 
> Did anyone else notice that Central America was skipping over in the
> afternoon?  I did not listen earlier in the day.  I heard several low power
> stations in North GA call them on 15 with no luck
> during this time.
> 
> Sorry I was not able to get on at night to work them on 75 or 40.
> 
> Dave K4JRB 
> 
> 
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