TopBand: 160M ZK1XXP wkg many

[Bernie McClenny]

Rich,
Thanks for the phone call this morning.  How come you called everyone on
the 
east coast though?  That was a huge pileup.  Boy that operator was
good.  He 
reminded me of the TO0R operation.  Who ever he was we should get him to 
operate the contests with us at W3LPL.  One thing I noticed about this
great
op was that he gave the stations call and a report.  Then turned it over
to 
the station he was working.  After the US station gave his exchange the
op
at ZK1XXP would send the stations call to confirm the QSO and then his
call
and UP.  Nice signal from about 10:20 to 10:57 (our sunrise).  Then
about 5 
to 10 minutes after our sunrise is when he peaked here in Central
Maryland.
Many locals got through, unfortunately I did not.  I'll be back
tomorrow.
de Bernie


dz@VOA.GOV wrote:
> 
> Well, looks like the ZK1XXP crew got their 160M station up and running
> and fine tuned. Worked them this morning for #157 with 100 Watts from
> this Maryland QTH. The op was working stations at a rapid clip at
> 25-30 WPM, usually repeating calls at the beginning and end of QSO
> to confirm them. Really sharp!
> 
> They appeared to show up around 0930Z. I was awaken by my own voice
> on the FM clock radio, timed to go on at 09Z, monitoring the QRPP
> FM wireless xmttr. I had the Winpack (freeware) packet monitoring
> software monitoring the local KE3Q DX Cluster. When W3MC did the
> ZK1XXP putout it was voiced by the computer's Sounblaster which fed
> the FM wireless xmtter and WAV files of Z.K.1.X.X.P. letters eminated
> from my bedroom speaker. Isn't technology wonderful, hi.
> 
> As I write this note at 1035Z, ZK1XXP is still on 1822KHz working
> North America but the pig farmers just showed up on SSB a KHz or 2 higher.
> The op seems to be QSX 1824-1827 to pick a quiet freq and go at it.
> 73 de Rich - K1HTV
> dz@voa.gov
> 
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Bernie McClenny, W3UR (ex WR3E, WB3JRU)
Editor of The Daily DX
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