Topband: K5P first night

[Milt]

Congratulations to all the stations who made it into the log; a lot of them.

To my knowledge the first ten into the log, in order,  were.......

N5IA
N7GP
K7ZV
WA7LNW
N6TR
N6RW
VE5UA
AA6RR
N7DD
KJ6P

I made a 2-channel recording of the entire first night of the K5P operation on 160 Meters.

My setup was as follows.

Left channel from a reciver listening with the 8-Circle TX antenna to 1.827.5 set at 2.5 kHz bandwidth.  The 8-Circle was oriented due west.

Right channel from a receiver listening with the 245 degree, 1 WL Beverage, to the K5P frequency of 1.826.5.  The bandwidth was set at 2.5 kHz.

There is only one hole (~ 10 Minutes) in the entire night of recording when I saved the file and started a new one at approximately 1155 Z, prior to leaving home for the day.

When examining the recording this morning, the last time I hear K5P is at ~1525 Z.  This is a full hour after sunrise here in DM52.  K5P completes a Q with JA2ONB and after one more CQ sequence, I never hear his signal again.

The signal from K5P was Q-5 from the time he called me when he came on the air at 0521 Z, until he faded away at 1525 Z.  That is a full 10 hours of solid copy.  Amazing.  A real good job on the expedition’s end.

If you made a Q with K5P during this time period, and think you may have been heard at my location within the RX frequency and bandwidth I had set, plus being heard off the rear or side of the 8-Circle, send me the time stamp of your logged Q and I will attempt to find your call along with K5P’s response.  If I can find it, I will extract the audio clip and send it to you in MP3 format.  Send the request to me direct, off list.

73, and good luck to those who didn’t make it the first night.

de Milt, N5IA