[TowerTalk] 40 meters

[BobK8IA@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/17/05 10:45:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,  
tom at klient.com writes:

Hi  Bob.  I didn't mean to say that anyone here could stand a chance against  
the west coasters doing a run of JAs in a contest.  In a contest, I'm  happy 
to get one JA station on each of the low bands for the multiplier  :)  As you 
know, EU is the bread and butter on the east coast when it  comes to racking 
up the points.


Absolutely re Eu, Tom. I recognize that clearly, as I did when I lived in  
MI. I still miss those seemingly never ending Eu runs on 40 I could do even  
there, let alone what you folks do in the real east, hi. There were MULTS in  
those runs. JA is but a one. ;-)
 
>I was talking more about DXing than contesting.  He was referring  to seeing 
the cluster spots of Asian stations in the morning hours.  I was  under the 
impression he was interested in working DX, not running JA stations in  a 
contest.  

Ahh.....ok. Maybe I should have followed the thread more closely. I am  kinda 
one dimensional, pretty much only a contester and I gorget that others may  
not be. ;-)
 
>When it comes to hunting down that rare DX, the fact that you have 8 to  10 
hours of short-path openings to Asia every night is exactly why I said what I  
did!  Here on the east coast we need to take advantage of those  long-path 
40m openings at 5:30pm in December.  You won't be in the 40m  pileup at 2:30pm 
local time.  Sure, we can work them at sunrise also,  but at that time we'll be 
competing with the west coast stations.  

For sure.You're right, at 1430 local (2130Z) I am at least an hour away  from 
hearing much on 40. Even then, its usually the Eu biggies that I worked the  
night before SP or morning LP. We have a true LP opening to Eu and the Mideast 
 in early morning here, around sunrise. Vy good sigs. Vy reliable and lasts  
an hour or two.  

73, Bob  K8IA