Topband: E51M

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Fillipe,  But for some reason they did not return to 80 CW for many days 
following that short stint.  I sort of wonder why?


Herb, KV4FZ



On 4/4/2012 3:16 PM, ct1ilt at sapo.pt wrote:
> They seem to have the antenna up already, I wonder if they will be qrv in
> the morning at EU Sun rise (at least Western EU - CT,EA,F,G,GW etc).
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> I worked them on 80m last week and they had a decent signal here.
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> Filipe CT1ILT
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> Citando Herb Schoenbohm<herbs at vitelcom.net>:
>> Jim,
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>>    E51M operation has super signals on all high bands but their interest
>>    does not seem to be in 160 at all.  I have asked them countless times
>>    and was told yesterday that there is some difficulty in getting up an
>>    antenna.. The SSB tent said they a have even sent over two of their crew
>>    to help out.  The SSB crew is very friendly and  easy to work.  On CW
>>    however this morning they were on 14 CW and spent 6 hours sending E51M
>>    up EU and the same was being sent on 18 Mhz as well for about the same
>>    amount of time.  It is very frustrating when a rare DXpedition  is in
>>    here 599 plus for hours and refuses to work the America's.  I just hope
>>    if they ever get on the lower bands that NA will even have a chance.
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>>    My question is why should any portion of the world be locked out for
>>    long periods of time from calling for a new country..  Sure I have faced
>>    time and time again trying in vain to break a EU wall on 160.  This was
>>    recently the case with 3C0E working Eu's for hours on TB and not a
>>    chance to NA at all.  So my suggestion is to have at least a few minutes
>>    to QSX for NA under these circumstances instead of just raising a total
>>    blockade lasting over the whole path opening. And in the case where a
>>    DX-pedition ops  want to disfavor some geographic location in deference
>>    to his buddies back in Europe, why not at least allow for a short open
>>    window from time to time?
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>>    Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
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>>    On 4/4/2012 12:40 PM, Jim WA9YSD wrote:>  Check out E51M on the
>> call search for E51M updates are posted there.
>>>     Latest post:
>>>     4.02.12  2257 Z
>>>     I spoke to the Team Leader about 30 minutes ago. Because the
>>> sat. phone is still too noisy, we spoke on 12 meters. Here are the
>>> two matters he related to me;  The Six meter station is available
>>> and ready to make QSOs.  If anyone is hearing them on six, or wants
>>> to give it a try, call one of the stations operating on the low
>>> band frequencies and ask for some one to go to the six meter
>>> station. The antenna for 160 meters is still being worked on. Stay
>>> tuned for that band to be QRV
>>>     Good Evening ,
>>>     Leon, (K2EWB)
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>>>     Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith. Jim K9TF/WA9YSD
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