Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota

[Carl]

Congratulations, sounds like another case of high angle N-S propagation

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Gray W0SD" <w0sd at triotel.net>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 8:00 PM
Subject: Topband: FT5ZM from South Dakota


> All I can say is to not give up.  I have heard "ZERO" from FT5ZM on 160 
> meters up until tonight and have been there every morning and night since 
> they got there.  Tonight I heard them for 28 minutes and for about 14 
> minutes about S-5-6 with a K3.  I would say a couple of S-units above the 
> noise. That reading was with the pre-amp off on the K3.  They have been 
> good on 80 meters which made it so frustrating I can not hear anything on 
> 160M.
>
> Tonight I could hear them best on my 190 foot high drooping dipole, next 
> on my NE beverage and last on the vertical but of course the vertical had 
> more QRN.  I worked them using the vertical and listening on the NE 
> beverage because at that time I had not figured out I could hear him the 
> best on the high dipole.
>
> Obviously I was very excited and started calling as soon as I could copy 
> calls.  Anyway I won't go into the details of working him but just wanted 
> to encourage people to hang in there. He has been coming in from the north 
> according to others and tonight my NE beverage was the best beverage of 
> the 4 I have so they were coming from the north.  The difference for me 
> appears to be the polar absorption on the path from here.
>
> Ed W0SD
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