Topband: FT5ZM

[Garry Shapiro]

I just worked him at 1455. He popped up to copiable and a minute later 
was in the log. I am a happy boy. Still there, still not loud but easy copy.

Garry


On 2/4/2014 6:55 AM, Milt -- N5IA wrote:
> Good morning Garry,
>
> Well, all the tea leaves lined up here this AM.
>
> He was first discernable at 1348.
>
> Heard a good CQ & call sign at :50.
>
> I started calling at :52.
>
> I made it into his log, on the hour, at 1400.
>
> He was wall to wall speaker quality for 10 minutes.
>
> He faded out at 1425, a full 10 minutes after my sunrise.  His signal 
> was audible here in SW NM, DM52lq for a total of 37 minutes.
>
> And this morning's op was NOT interleaving VK stations with NA. So the 
> note to the pilot may have helped on that account.
>
> Good luck with your situation.
>
> 73 de Milt, N5IA
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Garry Shapiro
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 9:56 PM
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: FT5ZM
>
> The west coast depends upon the morning bump and the only window is
> between their sunset around 14Z and our sunrise around 1515 and
> shrinking; the actual sunrise bump is, of course, short. Some areas east
> of the Sierra in the Mountain time zone apparently have no mutual
> darkness and therefore no opening at all, similar to what happened at
> VK0IR in  1997.
>
> Many west coast stations made good topband Q's over the weekend. Alas, I
> was plagued with a powerline arc exactly in line with Amsterdam SP and a
> deer took out my NW/SE Beverage. Now we are about to be clobbered by a
> CME--the high SFI of the past week heralded its arrival and I join those
> who are SOL. The prop gods are chortling.
>
> Garry, NI6T
>
>
> On 2/3/2014 6:45 PM, Les Kalmus wrote:
>> They were on top band tonight but really weak at best. I heard them 
>> better on the inverted L than the beverage which is really weird. 
>> They didn't start calling until around 2330Z.
>>
>> The ditter was a pita.
>>
>> 73, Les W2LK
>>
>> On 2/3/2014 6:33 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
>>> Well, it's academic for tonight because the only signals on frequency
>>> I've heard all night were the buzzards throwing out carriers & the
>>> occasional dits so to let us know they're there, waiting.
>>>
>>> Band condx or local issues there keeping them off 160 it seems.
>>>
>>> Gary, KA1J
>>>
>>>> Gary,
>>>>
>>>> I know I worked them on 40 SSB last night, and I do not appear in 
>>>> the log.
>>>>   So, I checked about a dozen other guys in the spots for 40 SSB 
>>>> last night
>>>> who supposedly worked them after I did.  None of them appear in the 
>>>> log
>>>> either.  Methinks there are some bands missing in today's upload!
>>>>
>>>> 73, Tony K4QE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rats, back in the chase, must have been a slim. Just checked clublogs
>>>>> FT5ZM log and the 160M Q didn't show up but my 17M contact an hour &
>>>>> a half later did. I know I heard them come back to me so it must have
>>>>> been a slim but geez with the signals like they were, it sure sounded
>>>>> like their signal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ugh...
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>> KA1J
>>>>>
>>>>>> Fingers crossed it wasn't a slim I worked. The signals were in & out
>>>>>> but for 4-5 minutes I could hear them clearly. Time'll tell.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I did get him it was greatly because the kiddies weren't playing
>>>>>> so hard today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 73,
>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>> KA1J
>>>>>>
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