Topband: [Fwd: RE: YA8G]

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Several stations including VE1ZZ worked YA8G last night during the short 
period after his city power came on. He will be on at 0015  on 1814.3 
and QSX up on 1.816  until his local sunrise which gives a 30 to 45 
minute window of opportunity.  Johnny has a great web site with on line 
logs which can be accessed by putting YA8G in your search.  Johhny talks 
about also getting on earlier by mentioning 0430 his local time.  I am 
not sure what this equates to in GMT but could mean a couple of hours 
earlier.  If I recall the former Taliban government created their own 
solar time zone. (It was noon when the sun was directly over the mosque 
in Kabul.) I don't know if this has been changed or not.

Last night the best path for me was not NE (direct path) but rather ESE 
which may indicate some sort of terminator skewing near his sunrise.

Good Luck,

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ


Herb,

Please see the extract from my log (adif-format) this morning:

<call:5>KV4FZ<qso_date:8:d>20040418<time_on:6>004216
<band:4>160M<mode:2>CW<rst_sent:3>559

So you got into my top band log as #4 from NA !! I tried to start around 
0015UTC,
but didn't have city power until 0030UTC. Just try to imagine the 
frustration when
you sit and wait for the local guys to turn on the big button :-)

I'm not able to get up 0430 local time every morning (have a job to take 
care of),
but will do my best.

73 es CUL,
Johnny - YA8G
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>From: Herb Schoenbohm <herbs at vitelcom.net>
>To: johnnyjohansen at hotmail.com
>Subject: YA8G
>Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:31:05 -0400
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